Cook County Sheriff Suspending Mortgage Foreclosure Evictions
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart will suspend all mortgage foreclosure evictions beginning Thursday, he announced today.
"These mortgage companies only see pieces of paper, not people, and don't care who's in the building," Dart said in a statement. "They simply want their money and don't care who gets hurt along the way. On top of it all, they want taxpayers to fund their investigative work for them. We're not going to do their jobs for them anymore. We're just not going to evict innocent tenants."
The suspension is a response to the soaring number of evictions in the County, many of which are of renters oblivious to their landlord's mortgage failure, according to Dart's statement. The sheriff's office expected to conduct foreclosure evictions at 4,500 properties this year, compared to 1,771 in 2006.
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