I met David Cherbak 12 years ago, when he was writing the Rodger Dodger police scanner reports for Edhat. David was a foremost neighborhood watcher on Milpas, stationed in his tiny studio home right across from the Habit. He’d alert me to emergencies in my neighborhood, Milpas, and areas I work as a community organizer. I loved this!
David is an old-school tenant, a relic from the days in 1998 when you could rent a rotgut hovel in this town for $685, when David moved in. You could look a landlord in the eye and do a verbal handshake agreement. You paid the rent on time and didn’t cause police visits or have loud parties.
All that changed when David’s landlord passed away, and the property was sold. David got an eviction notice in January. Everyone around him got renovicted.