A Safe Home For Minneapolis Black Family
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Dabby is a 58 years-old Black single mother. And at home, she’s like an air traffic controller, directing online school for five of her children, and caring for three adults.
Most of them have disabilities, and/or have complex medical needs.
Dabby’s asking for a home that feels livable.
She has the type of home that’s constantly bustling. But she doesn’t feel at home in it. “There’s been a mouse problem since I moved in that the landlord refuses to fix, I need to keep my groceries off-site at a storage facility,” she told me. She keeps the mouse tunnels blocked with children’s toys. “It makes me so depressed that I have to live in this dump. The kids are embarrassed.” She told me she had a rough childhood, and it’s made her extend her heart outward toward the children. “I thought I could give these kids more.”
Dabby’s landlord tried to evict her in August, under Executive Order 20-79, saying that she hired a hitman to hurt him. He also claimed, in court, that she called Black Lives Matter and asked them to burn his house.
The house itself is in a state of utter disrepair, in addition to being mouse-infested, and it has been since she moved in March 2019. “I feel trapped,” she told me. “Sometimes I think living in the van would be better than this.”
Here’s where we need your help. Dabby needs to move to a bigger space, one that’s livable, before winter! She’s caring for eight people, five of whom do online school from home. Her current house is beyond repairable, with the foundation rotting, leaking sandy soot into the basement.
At Renters United, we think it’s important to get renters’ needs met, so they can fight to build power that challenges those who hold power: who keep our houses in disrepair, who don’t hold landlords accountable.
We know that wealth has been extracted from black & brown communities for centuries, and that black & brown renters are disproportionately represented in the renter population, as well as in the population facing eviction before 2020’s end. Please chip in what you can to support Dabby, so that we may fight for racial justice together as well as housing justice, gender justice as well as disability justice!
Most of them have disabilities, and/or have complex medical needs.
Dabby’s asking for a home that feels livable.
She has the type of home that’s constantly bustling. But she doesn’t feel at home in it. “There’s been a mouse problem since I moved in that the landlord refuses to fix, I need to keep my groceries off-site at a storage facility,” she told me. She keeps the mouse tunnels blocked with children’s toys. “It makes me so depressed that I have to live in this dump. The kids are embarrassed.” She told me she had a rough childhood, and it’s made her extend her heart outward toward the children. “I thought I could give these kids more.”
Dabby’s landlord tried to evict her in August, under Executive Order 20-79, saying that she hired a hitman to hurt him. He also claimed, in court, that she called Black Lives Matter and asked them to burn his house.
The house itself is in a state of utter disrepair, in addition to being mouse-infested, and it has been since she moved in March 2019. “I feel trapped,” she told me. “Sometimes I think living in the van would be better than this.”
Here’s where we need your help. Dabby needs to move to a bigger space, one that’s livable, before winter! She’s caring for eight people, five of whom do online school from home. Her current house is beyond repairable, with the foundation rotting, leaking sandy soot into the basement.
At Renters United, we think it’s important to get renters’ needs met, so they can fight to build power that challenges those who hold power: who keep our houses in disrepair, who don’t hold landlords accountable.
We know that wealth has been extracted from black & brown communities for centuries, and that black & brown renters are disproportionately represented in the renter population, as well as in the population facing eviction before 2020’s end. Please chip in what you can to support Dabby, so that we may fight for racial justice together as well as housing justice, gender justice as well as disability justice!
Co-organizers (3)
Erin Lynch
Organizer
Minneapolis, MN
Dabbie Dobbins
Beneficiary
Ariana Feldman
Co-organizer
Erin Lynch
Co-organizer