American Heritage: Evictions

That night behind Heritage House as people tried to move out. Photo by author.

Six years ago yesterday, when I arrived at the Heritage House Apartments after work, it looked like the building was being turned inside out. Garbage and people’s belongings lay all around the foundation where they had been dropped out the windows onto the ground below.

Pickup trucks were backed up to every entrance to the building and men, women, and children were hauling plastic laundry baskets packed with…