Foreclosures are Victimizing Apartment Dwellers
November 4th, 2009
Foreclosures are victimizing apartment dwellers. One of the victims is Rafael Matos residing in Dorchester. He had been residing in this Brook Avenue apartment for the last four years and has never failed on paying his rent. His landlord too has never complained. Little wonder then that the eviction notice took him completely by surprise. He was not aware however that his landlord had defaulted on the house loan and that following this the lender, Deutsche Bank, had initiated foreclosure proceedings.
Matos had no idea that the house had been sold. The notice simply told him to vacate the premises. One week later his electricity was disconnected. He bemoaned that he had not done anything and was completely innocent.
Matos and 40 other tenants in the same boat demonstrated out the Beacon Street branch of the bank to focus attention on the plight of renters who were being victimized by this foreclosure wave for no fault of theirs. The protestors were joined by important city councilors demanding a meeting with the officials of the bank.
Councilor Chuck Turner said, “The foreclosures we see today are just the tip of the iceberg. We need to come together to create precedents. Deutsche Bank, take some of the pressure off of others who will be in the same situation, come forward and see that economic justice is done.”
One week prior to this picketing Deutsche Bank had said in a statement that it was not to be blamed for the evictions. The bank was merely a trustee whose role as “largely an administrative one.” The bank was not available for further comment.
When the councilors tried to go inside the security personnel blocked the way and refused entry. Speaking over the phone the media relations officer of the bank, Ted Meyer said that the local branch did not have the authority to talk about the mortgage matter. Turner asked Meyer to have a meeting with the tenants at Boston but he declined. However he agreed to arrange for bank officials to speak with the tenants and the housing advocates on a conference call.
Matos has continued to remain in his apartment throwing a challenge to the court orders. He said, “I’m going to tell them to stop the eviction because I don’t want to be another homeless person. They are millionaires. They don’t care about us. They don’t care about me, but I’m a hardworking man.”
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