Residents of 94 Franklin Avenue in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood came home one day in 2014 to news that they would have to remove their personal belongings from the yard behind their building. In the months following, construction crews and large machinery occupied the area, blocking the back door and erecting a wall right up against it.
That wasn't merely an inconvenience. It was a violation of New York's housing code. By July 2015, the residents of 94 Franklin were evicted.
Landlords Are Using Extreme Measures to Push Out Low-Income Tenants | Mother Jones
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