City-Approved Real Estate Agent Rents Foreclosed Home To Unwitting Homeless Mom, Three Kids

In New York City, the New York Daily News reports:

• Queens mom Lynn Manning had been living with her three children in a homeless shelter for far too long. So when the real estate agent from a city-approved list agreed to take her public assistance rental payments for a shabby Jamaica apartment, she wasn't about to turn him down. A year later, Manning, 35, is being evicted from the tiny two-bedroom dwelling at 138-31 91st Ave. When she went to Housing Court this month, she found out she had unwittingly been renting a foreclosed home.

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• Homeless Services spokeswoman Linda Bazerjian called the case "an unfortunate circumstance." The agency "has been helping the tenant to find another suitable housing situation," Bazerjian said, but declined to explain how her current plight could have happened.

For more, see Realtor OKd by city signed mom up for foreclosed home.

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