The Home Front

Sheriff Wants Evictions Halted During Winter

By Luke Mullins

Posted: December 11, 2008

An Ohio sheriff in calling wintertime evictions heartless and has asked the state’s governor to stop them:

From WLWT.com, via Housing Wire:

An area sheriff has ordered deputies to ignore eviction orders when people have nowhere else to live.

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said evictions in winter weather and during an economic recession are heartless and those cases should be sent back to the courts and resolved some other way.

Jones on Tuesday ordered deputies to ensure that people have shelter before they're forced out of their homes.

 

Eviction in Oregon

Quote "My family and I are being evicted in this freezing, snowing Oregon winter. I lost my job this fall and am at this time, five months behind in rent. I tried to work it out with my negligent landlord to no avail. He bought this house and property and has raped it and the land it is on, using part of the land for commercial gains. He's put nothing back into this place, even when I begged him to fix certain things in the house and outbuildings. He so very obviously has been sucking the profit out of this place and putting nothing back into it."

If you haven't paid your rent in 5 months where is all the profit coming from that he has sucked out?

landlord of OH @ Mar 20, 2009 16:24:22 PM

on not evicting those who have nowhere to go

Dear Sheriff Jones,

I heard you in the interview on NPRadio at noon today. It is good to hear some good common sense in a world that has lost the way. I admire you for your conviction on this point--in some cases not to set delinquent home-"owners" out into the cold--and pray that it may lead other sensible citizens to find our way to a more liveable social order.

I am a Catholic priest and I believe that society answers to a higher law. You have the challenging mission to uphold the law, always remembering, as you said so well, we are human beings first.

I have no idea of your religious persuasion. Personally I believe that Jesus will be our judge who said: "I was homeless and you gave me shelter".

God bless you and your fellow officers.

Fr. Tom Hemm of OH @ Mar 17, 2009 15:06:54 PM

Richard Jones Our knida man!

We should all be greatful and stand with this great sheriff R.Jones!I for one have been given a 3 day notice to leave my apartment.I am disabled and was robbed by my boyfriend of the money to support myself.The landlord agreed to give me time until I complained about the heat and the illegal activety in my building, I havent shared this with our sheriff, simply because he has heart and i feel safe with him watching over us all. He is our kinda man for the job. If we don't do anything else in our lifes we must fight to keep him close to us as we can. Mr. Jones if you do read this we thank you for our safety and congradulations on the weight loss.. We all will end up owing something and as long as we stay honest, everyone will be paid back even if it's a service of inconvienience at the moment for a bank or landlord or just anyone. Let's all work together like the Americans we've always claimed to be.

E.Proctor of OH @ Jan 13, 2009 01:45:44 AM

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