Columbus Housing Justice member Sam Agarwal recently witnessed an eviction down the street from her apartment, and wrote about the incident in a Letter to the Editor that ran in the Columbus Dispatch. An excerpt:
I awoke on Tuesday to a heaping pile of barely-worn furniture being chucked to the curb near my house on King Avenue. I thought, with a foot of snow on the ground, it was a bit early for spring cleaning. Only later that day did I notice a bright yellow sign on my neighbors’ door that read: “ You are being evicted. You have three days to pay rent or vacate the property.” … I personally am disheartened and outraged that the authorities are allowed to throw hundreds of people out of their homes amid temperatures below 20 degrees. This Draconian policy violates individuals’ right to life and liberty.
