Eviction case highlights accessibility, repair issues at Nevin Plaza – Richmond Confidential

Eviction case highlights accessibility, repair issues at Nevin Plaza

Mariam Zagub on December 9, 2019

On March 10, 2019, Michael Lewis came home to a notice on his apartment door telling him to vacate the unit where he’d lived for three years at Richmond’s Nevin Plaza housing project.

The notice followed 12 months during which Lewis hadn’t paid his rent due to what he and his lawyer charge were uninhabitable living conditions in an inaccessible upper floor unit, added to the expense of getting a new $2,400 wheelchair that he needs to get around.

Lewis, who is paraplegic, in April requested that the Superior Court in Richmond set aside, or reverse, the default judgment to evict him. He was granted a stay of execution – a pause on executing the judgment to evict him – until May 4th, according to court documents filed by Lewis’s attorney from Bay Area Legal Aid. Lewis said in a statement in the court documents that, before the notice appeared on his door, he hadn’t received a summons or complaint from the Richmond Housing Authority (RHA) regarding an eviction case filed against him, which would have been standard practice.

He then asked for a [...]

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