Palm Beach Underclass Rises to Resist Eviction

august 19, 2002  09:47 am
Palm Beach Underclass Rises to Resist Eviction
For years, the residents of an inner-city boarding house in the slums of West Palm Beach have sold drugs, beat on each other and generally struggled to get by. But then the city announced plans to demolish their home to make way for multi-million dollar apartments. New Times Broward/Palm Beach staff writer Eric Alan Barton reports how this threat brought the residents together in their own strange, strange way.