Sheriff Takes Stand Against Evictions AOL
posted: 1 DAY 1 HOUR AGO comments: 2097filed under: Financial Crisis, National NewsPrintShareText Size AAA(Oct. 9) - Saying innocent people have been thrown out on the street, the sheriff of Illinois' Cook County announced Wednesday that he would no longer evict people from foreclosed properties.

In an op-ed piece in the Chicago Sun-Times explaining his decision, Sheriff Tom Dart said that ''too many times,'' his deputies have arrived at foreclosed properties to find tenants who have indeed paid their rent. But the property owner had not paid the mortgage, leading banks to foreclose on the property.
That is what happened to families living in a building in Albany Park, Ill. ''l do not think this is fair because we do not know what happened,'' said one woman facing the prospect of eviction. ''We were paying rent every month.''
Dart faulted the banks for the ''mess,'' saying they have a legal responsibility to find out who is living in a building before taking any foreclosure action.
''We wo not be doing the banks' work for them anymore,'' Dart wrote. ''We wo not surprise tenants with an eviction order intended for their landlord.''

Yes he did make the right choice.
Those people were,and are doing everything right. The landlord, on the other hand, probably was indept , up to his yin yang and just could not cope anymore. Its called greed.
But those people should not be out in the street, with no place to go, from him being so unresponsible.