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. Neighbors tired of the drug dealing were happy.
Beds, chairs, tables and 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.
On Thursday, Minneapolis police evicted residents from their apartments, workers pounded plywood over the lower-level windows and barricaded the front door of 3101 6th St. N.
Another victim of the foreclosures plaguing the city’s North Side, the eight-unit complex had fallen into disrepair and its landlord’s rental license was revoked.
Thursday’s action was part of the city’s continuing crackdown on problem properties and pleased the neighbors, who were tired of the drug dealing and other trouble that had resulted in more than 1,100 police calls about the building since 1999.
But while the city had warned them on May 1 to move out, residents had held out hope that a last-minute takeover of the property by new management would allow them to stay. On Wednesday at 4:30 p.m., they learned that wouldn’t happen.
“We hoped they’d give us 48 hours,” resident Johnnie McLaughlin said Thursday afternoon. “We can’t get U-Hauls, we don’t have credit cards.
“I have a daughter coming home from school with no home.”
Built in 1962, the building was owned by Shirley Guevara until she lost it to foreclosure in August, according to Hennepin County property documents. The lender’s interest in the property was assigned to Bayview Loan Servicing LLC of Coral Gables, Fla.
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