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The article on all those Rogers Park condo conversions has sadly hit home for me (“Study: Rogers Park has 900 condo conversions each year,” Oct. 25). My husband and I had lived in that neighborhood for two years until last month, when the owner of the building where we lived decided to convert it into a condo. None of the tenants had received any notice.
Now my husband and I are currently living in a transient hotel. Owners and developers obviously don’t want $7-an-hour tenants living in their properties. What’s worse, the city lets them get away with it. The bottom line is that the working poor (my husband and myself included) are being thrown out in the cold and left out of the loop and no one cares.
