Judge Orders Condo Residents Evicted As Squalid Homeless Encampment Wreaks Havoc

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 6/2/26 | Aaron Sibarium

[Eleutheria5]

Residents of the Marylander Condominiums, in Prince George’s County, Md., have been without heat since November after vagrants from a nearby homeless encampment allegedly vandalized the boiler room.

Now, many of those residents will be homeless themselves after a judge greenlighted the county’s efforts to start a forced evacuation of the condominium complex.

Maryland district judge Bryon Bereano gave the county permission on Thursday to enforce an eviction order against half the property, which affects roughly 100 units. The county had deemed those units “unfit for human habitation” due to the heating failures allegedly caused by the encampment, to which the county itself had been delivering food.

Those deliveries—exposed by a Washington Free Beacon report on Thursday—were part of a broader pattern of inaction and enabling that allowed the camp to evolve into a 50-person shantytown.

“We’re not criminalizing the unhoused,” police major Thomas Boone said of the encampment at a town hall in January, a statement that put an exclamation point on the reluctance of local law enforcement to deal with the problem.

The county will instead push hundreds of legal residents out of their homes.

Bereano, the judge, did say that he would not hold the condo in contempt of court if some residents refused to leave. At that point, the burden of evicting them will fall on the county, which Bereano warned would face an uphill battle. Based on past experience, he said, only 30 percent of residents could be expected to comply.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: condo; evicted; homeless; maryland; squatters; wtf

[Eleutheria5]

Judgy-wudgy Bereano turns property rights on their heads. Only in Bizzarro America.

[coloradan]

I wonder how the condo residents voted. Maybe this is what they voted for.

[frank ballenger]

RE: “We’re not criminalizing the unhoused,”...

So what if people live in an apartment?

Would have to get a new lying, deceitful euphemism.

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The Wanderer
——Dion and the Belmonts (1961 hit) by Dion DiMucci.

Oh well, I roam from town to town
I go through life without a care
‘Til I’m as happy as a clown
With my two fists of iron and I’m going nowhere.

Oh yeah I’m the type of guy that likes to roam around
I’m never in one place I roam from town to town
And when I find myself a-fallin’ for some girl
I hop right into that car of mine and ride around the world.

‘Cause I’m a wanderer, yeah a wanderer
I roam around around around, around, around
‘Cause I’m a wanderer, yeah a wanderer
I roam around around around, aroundm around.

[packagingguy]

This situation sometimes occurs when a politically connected person or group wants cheap real estate. Move in the homeless to drive property values down.

They do this by having the police enforce the law in certain places while leaving targeted areas without enforcement, so the homeless go to places where enforcement is lax or nonexistent.

I saw a YouTube video about this being done in Philadelphia.

[hal ogen]

Maryland is and has been the FREAK STATE for many decades.

The festering, pathetic combination of lots of lawyers, government employees, degenerates, retired government employees, “minorities”, homeless bums, DIMs, Karens, illegal aliens and devil-worshippers of various sorts makes for an “interesting” mix guaranteed to provide lots of laughs to those not “living” there.

The rest of us can only hope that ALGORE was right...the oceans will flood the coast.

[suasponte137]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly, how many voted democrat? If they did well, you’re welcome.

[I want the USA back]

All part of the elimination of the middle class.

[dfwgator]

Stupid should hurt.

[mrmeyer]

If folks took the necessary measures it would

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This has been going on for generations. Especially in places that have rent control.

I think they used to be called block busters.

[AAABEST]

The county had deemed those units “unfit for human habitation” due to the heating failures allegedly caused by the encampment, to which the county itself had been delivering food.

The taxpaying property owners get evicted while the trash wrecking the place not only gets to stay, but eats free food delivered by the government.

[Lizavetta]

I cannot hear that song without smiling and remembering Paul Shanklin’s version on Rush’s show about Ted Kennedy.

[LegendHasIt]

They need Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer!

(From the movie "Brazil")>

[MotorCityBuck]

That's generally how it works. That's why you always bring some of your “Friends” (Cop “acquaintances”) with you when you evicted them and there Sh*t before they can do that.

Thanks Father. You were always a Good teacher. ;)

[frank ballenger]

Yes. Those good old days of Rush satires.

[ridesthemiles]

A CONNECTED ISSUE:

THE NATIONS LAWS VS SQUATTERS NEED TO BE SERIOUSLY BEEFED UP & APPLIED WITH VIGOR.

[ridesthemiles]

KIDS IN SCHOOLS ARE AT ABOUT 56% OF READING/MATH SCORES.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Residents of the Marylander Condominiums, in Prince George’s County, Md., have been without heat since November after vagrants from a nearby homeless encampment allegedly vandalized the boiler room.

Yeah, I would have given my notice to move in December and been long gone by January.

[Lion Den Dan]

Yeah, I would have given my notice to move in December and been long gone by January...............

I thought that condominiums were owned by the people living in them. Am I mistaken?

[metmom]

Maryland district judge Bryon Bereano gave the county permission on Thursday to enforce an eviction order against half the property, which affects roughly 100 units. The county had deemed those units “unfit for human habitation” due to the heating failures allegedly caused by the encampment, to which the county itself had been delivering food.

Lord! Deliver us from do-gooders!

PLEASE!