Minneapolis Tenants In Dilapidated Foreclosed Building Get The Boot As City Says Place Is Uninhabitable; Belongings Out On The Street, Kids Homeless

In Minneapolis, Minnesota, KAAL-TV Channel 6 reports:

• Several Minneapolis families were without a place to live Thursday night after their apartment complex was boarded up after falling into foreclosure.

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• While residents say they were given just a few moments warning, the city says the building was foreclosed on last summer and residents should have begun to look for a new place to live at that time. The building had no rental license, authorities said, and they set a May 1st eviction date.

• But the customary 72 hour grace period was extended to May 15th and then again until May 22nd - Thursday. The manager of the Problem Property Unit at the City of Minneapolis, Tom Deegan, told us the building had become "uninhabitable," with at least four units missing copper piping when authorities entered on Thursday.

For more, see Mpls. families evicted from foreclosed apartments.

See also, Minneapolis Star Tribune: North Side foreclosure upends lives (Black garbage bags stuffed with possessions covered the lawn of the north Minneapolis apartment building as its suddenly homeless residents milled around wondering where they would go next).