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ALAMEDA — Tenants have once more been told to vacate the Bayview Apartments on Central Avenue, the same complex where a mass eviction was threatened nearly two years ago. Rommel Laguardia, who lives with his wife and three children in a one-bedroom unit for $1,064 each month, said he found a three-day notice on his front door when he woke up Friday morning. Three other tenants got similar notices at the 33-unit complex at 470 Central Ave. An additional three tenants received 60-day notices. “These notices that are coming now are just retaliation,” said Laguardia, who has fought to stay at the complex ever since San Jose- based Sridhar Equities Inc. bought the property in October 2015 for $6.1 million and soon afterward told all tenants to leave so that upgrades could be carried out. No one from Sridhar Equities was immediately available for comment. Like the Alameda Journal Facebook page for neighborhood news and conversation from Alameda and beyond. The potential evictions at the ...

Affordable housing activists are calling out Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto , saying he hasn't done enough to help low- income residents evicted from East Liberty's Penn Plaza Apartments . But Peduto responded, saying his administration has gone "overboard" to help relocate the displaced residents. "To say that the city didn't do enough is an insult," Peduto said.  "Even when we did [find new housing], they said no, and now they're holding protests saying we didn't do enough." In the summer of 2015, approximately 200 residents of the Penn Plaza Apartments were served 90- day eviction notices by developers LG Realty Advisors . This was a shock to the mostly low-income residents, who found out their homes would be razed to support an upscale Whole Foods grocery store , a plan that has since been cancelled. Although the city stepped in to give residents more time to move, activist groups like Homes for All and the Penn Plaza Support ...

PORTLAND – The remaining low-income residents of rental units at the Eastland Park Hotel have 90 days to move out and make way for a major hotel renovation that could include a new ballroom in Congress Square Plaza . Eviction notices were sent to residents Monday. Earlier this month, about 12 tenants were still living in the hotel, said city spokeswoman Nicole Clegg . The notices came as no surprise since the hotel’s owner, Ohio- based RockBridge Capital , has been clear about its plan to convert about 50 low-income apartments into hotel guest rooms under the Westin Hotels name. The 90-day notice is 60 days longer than the residents’ leases require, said Adam Valente, senior vice president of RockBridge Capital, who noted that the investment group is making a significant donation to the city’s housing fund. The evictions will set in motion an overhaul of the 85-year-old hotel that Valente said will turn a “left-for-dead property” at a heavily traveled intersection into “a great sh...

JACKSONVILLE, AR - The parents of a two-year-old who died in a Jacksonville apartment complex have been given 10 days to move out after they failed to pay the rent. We initially covered this story because parents were concerned that this and another's child's death could have been linked to the condition of the apartments. According to Jessica Rollins, she was under the impression that a verbal agreement had been reached. But according to Rollins on August 18 she received a letter telling her she had 10 days to vacate the premises, instead of the 30 day notice she pointed to in her lease terms. Another letter she had been provided made note that her rent could increase but did not mention termination. "I talked to Miss Erica in the office about I wasn't going to be able to pay my rent this month because my son passing away and had to pay for his funeral and I would double it next month," said Rollins. "When you buy your home, your grandmother, father, and b...

"); } if ($(imageDivId).length == 0) { $("#wrapper").after(contentText); } })(jQuery); BREMERTON, Wash. - Crystal Turner stood in the kitchen of her cramped apartment and stared at the cracks in the fake wood flooring beneath her feet. Surrounding her was the home she'd made for herself and her two sons in the past year, since they moved out of her Toyota Camry and into Admiral Manor, a low- rent apartment complex in west Bremerton . There was the single bedroom with two kids' beds on the floor. The living room she'd decorated with signs that said "Hope" and "Love." A dingy bathroom with a leaking toilet that had never been fixed. In this undated photo, Matthew Daigneault pushes his son Aden as he plays outside on the swings of his rental home in West Bremerton , Wash. (Larry Steagall/Kitsap Sun via AP) © 2017 Cox Media Group . Admiral Manor wasn 't the place Turner, a recovering addict, wanted to raise her boys. It was the place...