WILD TALE: Judge Orders Condo Residents Evicted As Squalid Homeless Encampment Wreaks Havoc

February 6, 2026

From Free Beacon: Residents of the Marylander Condominiums, in Prince George’s County, Md., have been without heat since November after vagrants from a nearby homeless encampment allegedly vandalized the boiler room.

Now, many of those residents will be homeless themselves after a judge greenlighted the county’s efforts to start a forced evacuation of the condominium complex.

Maryland district judge Bryon Bereano gave the county permission on Thursday to enforce an eviction order against half the property, which affects roughly 100 units. The county had deemed those units “unfit for human habitation” due to the heating failures allegedly caused by the encampment, to which the county itself had been delivering food.

Those deliveries—exposed by a Washington Free Beacon report on Thursday—were part of a broader pattern of inaction and enabling that allowed the camp to evolve into a 50-person shantytown.

In January, police major Thomas Boone had declared, “We’re not criminalizing the unhoused.”

Now, the Free Beacon notes, the county will instead push hundreds of legal residents out of their homes – although the judge did acknowledge that only 30 percent of residents could be expected to comply with the order to vacate.

One tenant, Jason Van Horne, whose unit has no heat or electricity after space heaters fried the building’s circuitry, pointed to the fact that the homeless encampment included a shack with a generator, and said, “They’ve been living better than us.”