Miami Housing, Legal Aid Advocates Help Get Deal With Incoming Landlord On Behalf Of 24 Families In Foreclosed Building

In Miami, Florida, The Miami Herald reports:

• After a year of organizing, pleading and protesting, 24 families that endured unbearable living conditions after their landlord abandoned their apartment complex to foreclosure have reached an accord with the incoming owner. The tenants have been promised their old units at affordable rents and assistance finding short-term housing while the buildings undergo badly needed repairs.

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• The tentative agreement caps a lengthy campaign against the bank and the new buyer by tenants who were aided by housing advocates at the Miami Workers Center and Legal Services of Greater Miami.

For more, see Liberty City renters, new owner strike bargain (Renters at two Liberty City apartment buildings in foreclosure will be home for the holidays, thanks to new agreements with the incoming owner).