Dara Daugherty News Today

The judge also orders accused slumlord Dara Daugherty to stop having people impersonate City of St. Louis employees

Illegal rooming house maven Dara Daugherty was stoic in court, even while being accused of forcing people into modern-day slavery

Neighbors say the accused slumlord's unpaid workforce was exploited in "modern-day slavery"

LLCs controlled by the woman the City of St. Louis has accused of running illegal rooming houses received nearly $19,000 in federal funds

The Affton resident is also one of a half-dozen family members accused of running an illegal rooming house scheme in St. Louis

Letter: The time has come for the war on poverty here to shift from the war on the impoverished and those serving them, to the sheltering of the homeless.

In 2004, police werent after Dara Daugherty, the south side landlord who city lawyers recently accused of running an empire of slum housing. They were after her mother.

“There are a handful of landlords in the city of St. Louis who know how to ... make so much money that they don't care what happens as far as enforcement goes."

Bad landlords have long thumbed their nose at the city’s enforcement system, but some see change on the horizon

As rents skyrocket, so do the number of evictions, leaving thousands of local families in our region with devastating consequences, experts argue, as apartment complexes and their attorneys put big cash in their pockets.