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5 days ago
- Sport
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Malik Beasley, ex-Pistons guard, evicted from downtown Detroit apartment
The drama with former Detroit Pistons shooting guard Malik Beasley continues to unfold. According to a notice filed in the 36th District Court, Beasley was ordered to be evicted on Wednesday, Aug. 6, from his residence at The Stott, a luxury apartment in downtown Detroit. Paperclip Properties LLC, the Bedrock-affiliated operator of the property, previously sued Beasley on March 6 for $14,150 of unpaid rent, though the case was dismissed on March 31. However, Paperclip sued Beasley again on June 3 for $7,355 of unpaid rent, for which Beasley on June 16 was ordered to appear in court. According to the filing, Beasley failed to appear, and on July 15 was judged to be in default. This is the latest in a series of legal challenges for the free agent, who played a big role for the Pistons' return to the playoffs in the 2024-25 season. Beasley is currently a subject of an FBI investigation related to suspicious betting activity surrounding a game he played while a member of the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2023-24 season. That news came after the Pistons discussed a three-year, $42 million contract with Beasley, but Detroit ultimately decided to go in a different direction after the gambling allegations came out, pivoting to signing free-agent shooter Duncan Robinson instead. WEIRD: Malik Beasley gives mysterious update amid gambling probe, hints at Pistons return Beasley remains a free agent and can still sign with an NBA team for the upcoming season, though no reports have surfaced of any current contract offer. For his part, Beasley on Wednesday posted an update via a series of Snapchat stories, one of which shows him not ruling out a return to the Pistons. Beasley's 319 three-pointers in the 2024-25 season was the second-highest total in the NBA and set a Pistons' franchise record. Before the most recent NBA playoffs started, Beasley published an article in The Players' Tribune expressing his desire to return to Detroit. The nine-year veteran debuted for the Denver Nuggets in the 2016-17 season, but has bounced around the league playing for six different teams. His 2024-25 season, his lone year with the Pistons, was arguably his most productive, as he set career highs in games played (82) and finished second in the 2024-25 Sixth Man of the Year vote. You can reach Christian at cromo@ This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Malik Beasley, ex-Piston, evicted from apartment in downtown Detroit
Washington Post
11-08-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
How to fix D.C.'s housing crisis — and ensure rent is paid
Courtney Battle is executive director of the Housing&. Washington is weathering a housing crisis. The capital city has one of the highest mountains of unpaid rent in the country: $147 million is predicted to go unpaid in 2025 alone, which would represent a 1,236 percent increase since 2020. And that amount continues to climb. Combined with lingering financial deficits exacerbated by pandemic-era moratoriums on eviction, the District fears that much of its affordable housing — more than 20,000 units of which are already at risk of foreclosure — might soon disappear. Yet Washington should be well-suited to mitigate both problems. Affordable housing in D.C. is legally required to be rented at below-market rates. And the city has consistently funded its affordable housing war chest, the Housing Production Trust Fund, which provides low-interest loans to subsidize affordable housing. So why is this market continuing to crumble — and why are renters struggling so badly to pay rent? The likely, yet largely ignored, answer: Washington's flawed housing court and policies. Permits for new multifamily housing in the District are down to their lowest rates in over a decade, owing in part to a lethargic housing court and regulations that increase uncertainty in the market. The court has yet to recover from the pandemic: Landlord-tenant cases in D.C. regularly take over a year to conclude, up from three to five months before the pandemic. The result is an ever-increasing backlog of more than 6,000 cases. This is more than a resource issue: It's a question of policy. Under D.C. law, judges don't have discretion to decide whether a technical issue warrants dismissal in some cases, worsening the backlog. Waiting periods for hearings are weeks slower than in neighboring states. Notice procedures for evictions are similarly more cumbersome, requiring process servers instead of notice through the mail or posting on the door. These policy obstacles delay the resolution of housing disputes, in turn delaying rent payment. Washington's reputation of high rent delinquencies has predictably scared away business. WinnCompanies, a property manager, told the D.C. Council's housing committee that only 2 percent of its units nationwide are in D.C., but they account for 28 percent of its unpaid rent. Some property management companies have even tried to reduce this mass of unpaid rent through rent-forgiveness programs. One large provider of affordable units in the region offered its tenants a clean slate: Start paying going forward, and it will clear away your debt. Despite this method of last resort working elsewhere, less than 5 percent of D.C. tenants accepted the offer. Without any kind of a stick, even the largest carrots do not work. This is why Washington must revamp its housing policy to curb rent nonpayment and incentivize housing development. Luckily, this opportunity is on the table: The council is set to vote on Democratic Mayor Muriel E. Bowser's Rental Act, which, if passed, would rebalance D.C.'s housing ecosystem. First, the bill would make the housing court more efficient. It would provide judges with more discretion so that cases do not have to be refiled repeatedly. It also would shorten the notice period for evictions and make this process less burdensome. These changes would help reduce the time it takes for a case to move through housing court. Second, the bill would reform the District's Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, which gives tenants the chance to buy their apartment building when it goes up for sale or transfer their purchase rights to outside housing providers. Although law has provided leverage to tenants to improve their buildings upon sale, its rigidity dissuades investment in new affordable and market-rate housing projects. This opportunity to purchase is hardly ever used by tenants in new buildings. Nintey-six percent of tenant association formations under the purchasing law occurred in properties built before 1978. New buildings tend to be more expensive and have wealthier tenants, therefore eliminating the need for an act that prevents displacement. The bill would exempt buildings less than 25 years old as well as those that already have affordability requirements, expanding housing in D.C. without compromising the ability of tenants at risk of displacement to benefit from the sale of their building. To be clear, D.C.'s affording housing crisis primarily disadvantages tenants. The foreclosure of an affordable property almost always results in the end of that building's legal requirement to maintain affordability. Affordable housing providers who do manage to stay afloat are often forced to reallocate the cash flow that would've been used to maintain and improve buildings toward paying the building's mortgage , which is not being covered by the expected rent. This all results in higher rents and poorer living conditions for vulnerable residents. We cannot continue to ignore Washington's mounting housing crisis. To both reduce rental delinquencies and preserve affordable housing in D.C., the city must fix its broken housing policies.
RNZ News
27-07-2025
- RNZ News
Nelson's Le Posh bakery duo escape to Australia amid debt claims
By Tracy Neal of Veronica and Didier Crevecour ran the French patisserie in Nelson, before opening another in Tāhunanui. Photo: NZME An acquaintance of a couple who ran French bakery Le Posh said they appeared to have fled the country suddenly, leaving a household of personal items, including a 40-year collection of souvenir bells from around the world. A civil claim against Veronica and Didier Crevecoeur over unpaid rent on commercial premises in Nelson has lifted the lid on a trail of debt and deceit left by the couple. NZME recently revealed how the pair failed to appear in the Nelson District Court in June for a hearing in which they were ordered to pay more than $29,000 in unpaid rent, damages and legal costs to the owners of a building where they ran one of their bakeries. Other people claimed they too had been left out of pocket after dealings with the couple who arrived in New Zealand about 2018. Now, two more people have come forward, saying they are also owed money. Veronica and Didier Crevecoeur Photo: NZME / supplied Software engineer Steve, who lived near the Crevecoeurs in an exclusive area of Nelson's port hills, considered the couple as friends. "At some point, Veronica came to see me - I think it was in November last year. She called me and said, 'I need your help, can I come to see you?'" Steve alleged Veronica then told him a "very strange story" about her father and someone she knew in Spain, and how they needed about 3000-4000 Euros ($NZ5800-7804) to send. He said she was very convincing, but he did not have that kind of money to lend. In the days before the Crevecoeurs left, Steve said Veronica sent him another message, asking again for money. He alleged she needed almost $1000 to cover what he believed might have been rent. "I didn't send the money, but she was very insistent. "She sent me many messages in a way that was very strange." Steve said he began to get suspicious, but finally relented and gave Veronica a couple of hundred dollars. "She was saying, 'I will pay you back tomorrow, I will pay you back tomorrow', and then she sent me more messages asking for more [money]." Steve arranged to pay $300 via a bank transfer, so he had a record, then tried to reach the couple a few days later, but said he got no reply. The Crevecoeurs had left, without paying it back. Steve understood the couple flew to Perth, where they had family, a few days after his final communication with them on 20 February. He was curious about why she did not respond to his text messages, so he went to the home they rented. He found them gone, and the landlord sorting through a stack of expensive clothes, a huge collection of shoes and the large collection of souvenir bells. Los Galanes played a Bastille Day function in Blenheim, but never received full payment. Photo: NZME / Los Galanes Nelson-based Italian/Kiwi musician Raffaele Bandoli said the Latin band he played in was left out of pocket, when the Crevecoeurs failed to pay in full, after hiring them to mark France's Bastille Day at an event in Blenheim in July 2019. Bandoli said the band - Los Galanes - was paid a $1100 deposit for the $2245 gig, but he claims they never saw the rest of it. Bandoli said band leader and founder Jose Luis Perez paid individual band members from his own pocket. Los Galanes, which at times has been a 10-piece band, was then a seven-piece. "He was such a responsible and nice person that he paid all the members of the band regardless," Bandoli said. He wanted to speak out, in honour of Perez, who died suddenly in March last year, while travelling in Europe with partner and band administrator Rebecca Knox. Knox said Perez always paid his musicians a set fee, but the "biggie" for them was Veronica Crevecoeur. "At first, she was really lovely to deal with," she said. The band covered its own costs travelling from Nelson to Blenheim, the event went well and the Crevecoeurs seemed pleased. An invoice was sent, but she claims there was no reply. Another statement was sent and they tried contacting the Crevecoeurs by phone, but still nothing. They hired a debt collector to recover the money, but when he went to serve the notice in Blenheim, the premises were empty. Knox said Perez had pleaded with Veronica to pay the remainder of the fee. "Jose would leave messages saying, 'Veronica, this is really urgent for the survival of the band'." When she noticed the shop Le Posh pop up in Nelson, it was "a massive red flag". Knox was then floored, when she saw the second Le Posh open up near Nelson's Tāhunanui Beach. The Crevecoeurs moved to Nelson from Marlborough about 2021. The opening of the second store was the beginning of the end of their New Zealand chapter. The property investment firm, Tawero Holdings (No 2) Ltd, from whom the Crevecoeurs leased the second premises in November 2022, lodged court action, when they abandoned the lease, owing $13,175 in rent and outgoings. A spokesperson for Tawero claimed the couple were masters of deceit. He said taking legal action was a decision not made lightly, but "a lot of deception" had been at play. "We are not novices at this and we were taken in." Tawero Holdings was granted, a summary judgement of $22,547 against the Crevecoeurs, as well as several thousand more in costs associated with reletting the premises, plus damages. One of two Le Posh locations in Nelson. Photo: NZME Steve decided to share his story, after reading about what else they had done. He and his wife had shared a few dinners with the Crevecoeurs at each others' homes or at a nearby Thai restaurant. Their last dinner together was earlier this year, when the Crevecoeurs brought French food to share and some drink. He believed they had Australian citizenship, and planned to spend six months there and six months in France, where they owned a small house near Dieppe, where Didier was from. "They want to split their time in France between there and Paris, because Veronica really loves Paris," Steve said. NZME has been unable to locate the Crevecoeurs for comment. -This story originally appeared in the New Zealand Herald .
CTV News
04-06-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Two Ontario landlords owed $70,000 after ‘professional' tenants stopped paying rent, trashed property
Pat Foran has the details on the struggles of small landlords as they face unpaid rent from tenants and a new resource to help vet prospective renters.
CTV News
04-06-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Two Ontario landlords owed $70,000 after ‘professional' tenants stopped paying rent, trashed property
Pat Foran has the details on the struggles of small landlords as they face unpaid rent from tenants and a new resource to help vet prospective renters.
