tenants

If the government of one of the richest countries in the world can’t adequately house the people who live in it, then what exactly is its point? The journalist Vicky Spratt doesn’t make this case directly in her first book, but she does lay bare our state’s lack of fitness for purpose in its current condition, showing how scarce, unsafe, cramped, unaffordable and, above all, insecure housing lies at the root of Britain’s ongoing public health crisis.How did we get here? To put it bluntly, we allowed ourselves to be bought…

Laura Survine remembers sitting on a curb, half a block from the Aurora home she had lived in for nearly a year, watching her possessions being placed on the front lawn. Her landlord, a one-time friend who had turned against her, had even gotten a temporary restraining order on Survine, forcing her to watch her own eviction from 100 yards away. “We had to find a hotel with what little money I had left,” said the 43-year-old single mother, who cares for her own teenage child, a goddaughter in high school and a 6-year-old…

The former owner of a retail building in Cherry Creek is suing three tenants for unpaid rent, including a float studio that allegedly owes him nearly $235,000. James Pepper, who sold the 250 Steele St. building for $14 million in March, filed three lawsuits on May 11. He’s demanding about $348,000 in total. VIVE Float Studio, where customers can sit in vats of liquid nitrogen and float in sensory-free pools of water, has a location at 250 Steele and two other studios in Frisco and Chicago. VIVE signed the Cherry Creek…

Rents are spiking at double-digit rates across metro Denver, and while the gains aren’t as extreme as the rise in home prices, they are leaving tenants facing them feeling financially depleted and trapped in a predicament they can’t easily escape. Sarah Wadsworth and her fiance were happy with their apartment at Infinity LoHi in northwest Denver. The rent of $1,900 a month, plus another $175 a month for two parking spots, was higher than the $1,700 they previously paid to live in Capitol Hill. Wadsworth said the trade-off…