Diane Washington told Savannah’s City Council what happened at Clearview “was a disgrace and a dishonor.”

“They’ve already been evicted. They’ve already been evicted. They have suffered. They didn’t receive no financial assistance. None,” she said at a Dec. 9 council meeting. “Those people had to rob Peter to pay Paul in order to get services from people in the community to be able to relocate. And that plays the hardship on him. And that’s a disservice to those people with children.”

Washington was speaking for the displaced tenants of Clearview, low-cost apartments slated for demolition in West Savannah.

The tenants received move-out notices in August, which gave the tenants 60 days to vacate the apartments many of them have called home for decades. An extension was granted until New Year’s Eve after public outcry, but it was revoked on Nov. 11, when the remaining tenants were served dispossessory warrants. A judge ordered writs of eviction a week later. By Dec. 18, Clearview sat empty.

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