Racist signs pop up in Lewiston mayor’s race

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13. And the guy is a slumlord too. Shocking!

This comes as no surprise:

When Lewiston resident Shawn Greeley moved into an apartment at 32 Horton Street, he found the conditions so appalling he had no choice but to report it to his landlord, Rick Lockwood.

“When I moved in there were giant holes and leaks in the walls and floors. There are also cockroaches and bedbugs. I asked Lockwood to make repairs and I never heard back,” said Greeley. “I stopped paying rent because Lockwood was unresponsive and the apartment was in such bad condition. He then threatened to kill me. He actually said, ‘I’ll kill you.’ Code enforcement visited my apartment but has not done anything to help. Lockwood recently shut off my power. This is wrong. It’s just wrong.”

Lockwood is at the center of a new report released by the Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) and the Neighborhood Housing League (NHL) exposing the shady practices of three of the city’s worst landlords. The report details major health, safety and livability concerns at 71 Lewiston properties owned by a web of shell corporations linked to Lockwood and two other landlords, Joe Dunne and Ted West.

http://mainebeacon.com/report-exposes-lewistons-three-worst-slumlords/