What is a squatter? A South Side, Chicago homeowner started the Illinois eviction process against a stranger living in her vacant Chatham home.
Danielle Cruz said the stranger has been living in her vacant home rent-free for five months. Police told her their hands were tied, so she started the eviction process.
Because the woman inside has a lease, police said their hands are tied and referred Cruz to the eviction courts.Cruz said she believes the woman inside is a squatter. She said if the woman truly signed a month-to-month lease with someone, by now, it would be time to make additional payments. Cruz said she hasn't received a dime from the woman inside.
ABC7 interviewed Stevenson a few years ago in an unrelated story about a grocery store grand opening. The complaint claimed that Stevenson "unlawfully withholds possession of the premises," that "no lease exists" between Cruz and Stevenson and that she has "taken over the property while it remained vacant."
"To take someone's home? They worked all their life to get this home and now all of a sudden, you're controlling their home," said Holmes. "This family shouldn't have to go through this to prove anything."
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