[lbo-talk] evicting as patriotic duty

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 14 13:00:15 PDT 2007


http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-evictlawyer14mar14,1,6555140,print.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage


>Dennis Block seemed glued to his black leather
>chair, his coffee untouched, apparently
>impervious to physical needs such as the
>bathroom or food, taking one landlord's phone call after another.
>
>Almost all the callers wanted the same thing: to evict their tenants.
>
>In a DVD he gives to landlords, Block describes
>himself this way: "A man who has evicted more
>tenants than any other human being on the planet Earth."
>
>He has never been busier.

[....]


>"He puts people on the street totally turns
>communities upside down
. I think it's
>contemptible," said Brett Terrell, the director
>of advocacy for the Inner City Law Center, a
>nonprofit that works with tenants being evicted.
>
>Block, 55, greets such criticism with indignation.
>
>"I think my position is righteous," he said.
>"The average landlord is not a rich individual
.
>Under rent control, unlike any other business on
>planet Earth, a landlord is being ordered to
>support other individuals totally at his own costs. This is not fair."
>
>Evicting rent-stabilized tenants, he says, is his "patriotic duty."

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