Bankruptcy leaves Taylor Bend residents in limbo thedmonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedmonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Historic Black community fights military project on Coast land fouled by arsenic, lead Anita Lee, The Sun Herald
Feb. 8 One last time, residents of North Gulfport have mustered to fight development of Mississippi State Port Authority property contaminated with lead and arsenic.
Three residents, the Anointed Temple A.O.H. Church of God and the nonprofit North Gulfport Community Land Trust are appealing a state decision to permit discharge of storm water from construction on the north port property, which is surrounded by hundreds of homes in predominantly Black neighborhoods.
Residents fear lead and arsenic will seep from the site into neighborhood ditches and area streams, including Turkey Creek. Port officials say the lead and arsenic pose no risk because they have been contained under a clay cap that the development will not disturb.
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Repeat eviction judgments to be commonplace across the state, analysis shows.
Under a federal eviction moratorium and as a deadly virus continued to rage, landlords in Jackson sued even more tenants each day than they did in previous years.
Many Mississippi families, especially those who were suffering before the pandemic, have not been protected under the government’s narrowly tailored efforts to keep people housed during a global pandemic, advocates argue.
“Housing is fundamental, and in a perfect world, it would have been an original consideration for funding,” said Mississippi Home Corporation Director Scott Spivey, noting that by mid-December, Congress still had yet to appropriate funds that could be used to pay the rents of most struggling tenants, even in previous relief b
Columbus woman challenges state eviction laws after losing personal property to landlord cdispatch.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cdispatch.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Challenging the state s landlord tenant laws By Quentin Smith | December 14, 2020 at 10:25 PM CST - Updated December 15 at 9:20 AM
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WLBT) - Did you know that in Mississippi, if a tenant is evicted from their home, state law considers their property abandoned?
This means the landlord can immediately seize their possessions and do whatever theyâd like with them.
Now The Low Income Housing Clinic at the University of Mississippi School of Law is filing a federal lawsuit on behalf of their client Samantha Conner.
The 19 page document shows Conner was renting an apartment at Chateaux Hills apartments in Columbus.