Tenants buy properties from negligent landlord who tried to evict them

Thirty-eight families in south Minneapolis will gain ownership of their five apartment buildings after spending years battling with their landlord, Stephen Frenz, who had been trying to evict them.

“This is an amazing victory. I am so happy,” Chloe Jackson said in a statement Monday. She is a resident of one of the properties and board president of the tenants rights group Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia (United Renters for Justice).

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