Prediction: if people refusing to vacate and chaining the doors catches on, owners are going to start setting fires and blaming it on the occupants. "They shouldn't have blocked the exits! Muh Triangle Shirtwaists!" Pocket insurance money, paint tenants as firebugs, message sent.
Prediction: if people refusing to vacate and chaining the doors catches on, owners are going to start setting fires and blaming it on the occupants. "They shouldn't have blocked the exits! Muh Triangle Shirtwaists!" Pocket insurance money, paint tenants as firebugs, message sent.
Note that here they are chaining the doors of the court shut. If landlords want to burn down the courts then that would be an amazing self own.
Ah, I read too little and too fast and thought they were chaining shut the properties in question with themselves inside.
Totally understand since refusing to vacate under an eviction notice has been a tactic in the news lately too.
I would rather seize every last building in the city than watch a single landlord burn any of them down