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Please make a phone call: 52 families from New
Orleans face Houston Eviction
by stop illegal evictions
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005 at 2:01 PM
Please make a phone call: 52 families from New
Orleans face Houston Eviction
Please call Kirk Tate at 713.622.5844 the owner of
Quail Chase apartments and ask him not to evict the 52
families from New Orleans who are living in his
apartments in Houston.
Here is the story:
Sabrina Robinson lived her whole life in New Orleans.
When Katrina and the floodwaters hit her house, she
and her three children swam to a dry bridge where they
lived for 2 days. We watched people die, said Ms.
Robinson. Now her family and 52 other families from
New Orleans face eviction from the Houston apartment
complex where they lived for the last month.
After a bus took the Robinson family to Houston, they
slept on the floor for a month. On October 2, the
family received federal housing vouchers from the
Disaster Relief Center in Houston. Quail Chase
apartments in Houston agreed to accept the vouchers.
Ms. Robinson and 52 other families from New Orleans
moved in to Quail Chase. After the families lived
there for several weeks, Quail Chase changed their
mind and refused to accept vouchers. Quail Chase has
now given eviction notices to all 53 families. Now
they face the streets again. There is nothing else
available, Ms. Robinson said. All the decent
housing is taken.
The owner of Quail Chase is Orion Real Estate. The
owner is Kirk Tate (who described himself in the
Washington Post as a member of the Houston Housing
Katrina Task Force!) His phone number is:
713.622.5844.
Kirk Tate told the Associated Press:
"I have a lot of residents who are very angry with
me," said Kirk Tate of Orion Real Estate Services in
Houston, who manages about 16,000 apartment units in
Texas. "But we may wake up six, seven months down the
road and we would still have this." CNN 11.13.05
associated press.
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