UPDATES: September 6: ¿Sabe Ud. qué hacer en caso de que se ordene una evacuación? ¿Está preparado para una emergencia? Más información. August 29: Another draconian policy: Residents are told they must stay inside their apartments when they're on Abbey Court property. Read more. August 15: We urge fellow residents to follow the guidelines about garbage disposal recently posted to the dumpsters.

CURRENT CAMPAIGN:
STOP TOWING RESIDENTS' VEHICLES

As of July 2008, we are organizing to ask Mr. Ken Lucas, president and CEO of the Tar Heel Companies, to stop towing our cars under the pretext that they do not “look new enough.”

BACKGROUND:

In July 2008, the management began to enforce a parking policy which requires every tenant's car to have a parking sticker. However, many tenants soon discover that they could not obtain the sticker because management objects to the physical appearance of their vehicles: scuffed paint and minor dents are reason enough for refusal.

We question the business ethics of management signing leases with people and letting us move in; enforcing a new parking policy creates new conditions for living here and penalizes people whose cars do not meeting those conditions: They deny us parking stickers and tow our cars, all the while continuing to take our rent checks.

The new policy not only looks like bad business ethics, it simply looks like bad business.

We belong to the working class. We don't have the money to buy brand new cars or make our old cars look pristine. We need our cars to go to work. Many of us have families which include senior citizens and small children. We are pleading with Mr. Ken Lucas to please stop towing our cars from the complex and to allow all Abbey Court tenants, independently of their financial situation and their national origin, to park near their homes.