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The lady said she lost her job, because of the time she "spent in court fighting her eviction"

There has been 7 (SEVEN) EVICTIONS FILED AGAINST HER PREVIOUSLY.

Fans of liberal policies, please move her in with you.

JIM SALTER

Fri, September 17, 2021, 3:52 PM·3 min read

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The knock on the door that Kristen Bigogno has long dreaded finally arrived Friday — two St. Louis deputies came to evict her, joined by a couple of other men there to change the locks on the apartment.

The eviction was months in the making, yet it felt sudden to Bigogno. The judgment against her was last winter, but thanks to a national moratorium, she got a reprieve that ended with a Supreme Court ruling last month.

She received her final notice on Tuesday. When two deputies pulled up around noon on Friday, she knew it was over.

Now, Bigogno, 39, doesn't know where she and her sons, ages 16 and 17, will live.

“I have no idea,” she said. “Pray to God something happens. I don’t know what else to say or do.”

She's especially worried about her two cats and a dog, which will probably end up in a shelter. “Do you want my pets?” she asked a reporter.

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The U.S. Supreme Court last month blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban of evictions, essentially ending a months-long moratorium imposed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The freeze was meant to provide relief for tenants unable to keep up with their rent due to the coronavirus pandemic, and to prevent further spread of COVID-19 by people put out on the streets and into shelters.

Bigogno started noticing neighbors leaving last year. She said the company that owns the three-story, six-unit building and two neighboring complexes in south St. Louis began evicting tenants with plans to rehab the buildings and rent them at higher prices.

She was notified in February that she would be evicted. With the help of an advocacy group lawyer, she was able to convince a judge that her case was covered by the CDC moratorium, and she was allowed to stay.

But no longer.

After the deputies entered Bigogno's apartment, she began carrying a few things — clothes, appliances, bedding — out through a back door and putting them in her car and a friend's pickup truck.

Within a half-hour, the new locks were in place. The apartment was no longer hers.

St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts, whose agency is responsible for facilitating evictions, said the pace of removals hasn’t been as bad as he expected. He figures that some people, aware the moratorium was ending, made arrangements before being forced out.

But Betts said too many, like Bigogno, wait until it's too late. Once the court orders an eviction, he said, he has no choice in the matter.

“We’ve tried to be compassionate, empathetic, but once we get to that D-Day, I myself have to follow that court order or I will be in contempt of that court order,” Betts said.

Kennard Williams of Action St. Louis, a not-for-profit that works with people facing eviction, disagreed with Betts' assessment of the climate for renters. Williams said his office has been flooded with calls from desperate tenants.

“It's brutal out there, man,” Williams said.

Williams is still working on behalf of Bigogno “to keep a roof over her head.” She's now on a waiting list for subsidized housing. A church has offered to pay her first month's rent if she can find a place to live, and she started a GoFundMe account. For now, she and the boys may sleep in their car.

The problem, Bigogno said, is that all that time in court fighting the eviction cost her her job, and she hasn't found new work. Landlords won't rent to her because she's unemployed, she said.

As a man was finishing up replacing the lock on what used to be her backdoor, Bigogno approached him. Rather than express any anger, she apologized “for the whole situation.”

The man seemed perplexed, then shrugged.

“We're just doing our job,” he said. “We've got nothing to do with this.”

“ working to keep a roof over her head” …… um…..yeah……

A sad story if you keep your head buried in the sand, and there may be a -new to ownership- landlord that may not review how the past behavior seems to repeat itself and will let this person drop off things in a nonpaid unit while the paint is still drying then pop off a trail as long as the National Road with -what do I do about (any of a zillion things)- while the condition of the property falls sharply and the trouble with damage tilts the scale in the opposite direction. I think many of us have found these people trying to fill out an application smothered in -bulloney- and take the application fee anyway, spend an hour trying to get any 3 dots to connect but it is useless.

There are people you can't help no matter what you do. Your are wonderful as long as you are shelling out cash for them "to purchase the necessities." That money will go for booze, cigarettes, and a trip to the "club." Never to the landlord.

Being treasurer at the church I had a situation that we were going to pay "Karens" rent. Not real hame. I said what is the landlord's name. Then things changed. Make the check to Karen. I said that was not the agreement with the church. Told them I can't write a check to "karen", as that was not the agreement.

#22,

Great story!

Gee, how many hours/days does it take to tell your sob story to the judge? Wait...her free lawyer probably did that.

Call up that LL and invite him to Jeffrey's Landlord Boot Camp where he/she will learn how to screen.

7!! previous evictions and the LL still rented to her.

Probably no 2 Minute In Home Visits either!

BRAD

Frustrating that the general public and media will sympathize with her.

And your MO tax dollars help her stay.

My county had 6 different financial agencies helping with rent. And the federal money finally reached Indiana LLs.

O mention of her APPLYING for assistance. Guessing she did not apply.