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Oracle Asked To Help Low-Income Residents Evicted For Its New Cloud Campus (cio.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the chip-in dept.

itwbennett writes: Roughly 100 low-income families were evicted from an apartment complex on the land in Austin, Texas where Oracle plans to build a new 560,000 sq. foot cloud-computing campus. Some of the former tenants of Lakeview Apartments had leases through the end of the year, but were reportedly forced by owner Cypress Real Estate Advisors to move out early. Some have said their security deposits were not returned, and they have had no assistance as they've struggled to find comparably priced housing. Last week, some of those residents gathered near the site of their former home to protest and to appeal to Oracle for assistance.

2 of 202 comments (clear)

  1. No surprise here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    ORACLE = One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

  2. Re:Move to a proper country by will_die · · Score: 4, Informative

    The tenants were notified in June that this was going to happen. They were later notified that no leases would be extended and if the leases expired in September they had to be out by then. People with monthly leases also had to be out by then.
    This left some people who had leases until December and a few that just stuck around. The ones with the leases until December are in a court lawsuit currently over the level of inaction the management company provided in not fixes issues and with removal of services.
    So what additional protection should they have? I live in Germany and three months is what I can expect for notification.