"Anna Jones" had just finished her shift at St. Rose Hospital in Las Vegas, where she works as an emergency room nurse, when she received an email from her landlord labeled, “Quick Action Needed.” Her landlord—a quiet, older woman who lived downstairs from Jones and her husband—informed her that she would need to vacate the premises within 24 hours. The reason, she said, was COVID-19.
“I don’t want interaction or debate over this decision,” the landlord wrote in emails reviewed by The Daily Beast. “I’m sorry for the abrupt notice, but given the situation, it’s the choice I’m making to protect myself.”
“Honestly, it’s devastating,” Jones told The Daily Beast this week. “I was just really heartbroken and just felt like, ‘How could somebody treat me like this, all because I’m a nurse?’”
Kadey Carter, a travel nurse in Missouri, told The Daily Beast that multiple Airbnb hosts had cancelled her reservations in recent weeks after learning she was a nurse. “They’re apologetic but they’re just like, basically for our protection right now, we’re not comfortable with that,” she said.
Around the country, nurses like Jones and Carter—who are fighting the epidemic with little protective gear and at great risk to themselves—are being booted from their homes by property owners who fear they may bring the new coronavirus home with them.
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Hospital and health care workers probably should shower and change clothes before going home after their shift, if possible
ReplyDeleteSalisbury Maryland landlords are in for a major readjustment.
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DeleteILLEGAL !!!! GET A LAWYER
ReplyDeleteMarch 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM
ReplyDeleteLong over due.
Rent is ridiculous
Foreclosures are already at 9%
Bank were trying to sell foreclosures for top dollar
I have been watching the market and people are putting their houses up for ridiculous amounts and then 2 weeks later having to drop their prices by the thousands.
I am not sure it the agents are perpetuating this lie or if sellers are really that stupid.
Some management company bought a house on E Church and N Saratoga and is trying to rent it for $1300
For that price I would go in a complex and enjoy the pool
I think their name is Greedy Ahole.
Like I said before... it appears we all love capitalism and hate government involvement or regulation until we don't.
ReplyDeleteYes, this is unconscionable. In a free market. a landlord gets to choose who to rent to.
But not illegally evict someone.
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