The day after my column about Riviera Beach political activist Fane Lozman hit the streets, the city sent him an eviction letter.
Maybe, but whether it was tied to my report doesn't change the fact that the City of Riviera Beach is engaging in a shameless game of retaliation against a man who is challenging its $2.4 billion redevelopment plan.
Since Lozman filed a lawsuit to stop the city's plan to use eminent domain to displace thousands of residents for the benefit of private developers, the city has been harassing him. The city's point man is George Carter, director of the city marina, where Lozman lives in his houseboat at Slip 452.
Read more
City Bites Dog
August 24, 2006
Comments are off
The day after my column about Riviera Beach political activist Fane Lozman hit the streets, the city sent him an eviction letter.
Maybe, but whether it was tied to my report doesn't change the fact that the City of Riviera Beach is engaging in a shameless game of retaliation against a man who is challenging its $2.4 billion redevelopment plan.
Since Lozman filed a lawsuit to stop the city's plan to use eminent domain to displace thousands of residents for the benefit of private developers, the city has been harassing him. The city's point man is George Carter, director of the city marina, where Lozman lives in his houseboat at Slip 452.
Read more
Recent News
The Fane Lozman Story
This is a true story of a persistent and tenacious underdog who fought against the governmental seizure of 2200 homes and businesses in 2006 only to see that same government arrest and destroy his floating home three years later, for an alleged failure to pay one month’s rent at the marina. Fane Lozman did not give up but continued the improbable climb from a county court eviction case to the US Supreme Court.
