内容摘要：Ralph Rodriguez, left, chats with Army veteran Sidney High at his Fayetteville, N.C., pawn shop. Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Ralph Rodriguez, left, chats with Army veteran Sidney High at his Fayetteville, N.C., pawn shop. Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Court records in an eviction case filed against Webster in April 2022 cited repeated unsuccessful efforts to serve him. After he was gone, the case was dropped.Last August, Webster filed a lawsuit in Missouri state court alleging he was illegally evicted.

“There was never a court order allowing them to change the locks, allowing them to throw away his belongings,” said attorney KB Doman of Arch City Defenders, an advocacy group representing Webster.The suit seeks $25,000 in property damage and for “severe emotional stress and trauma.” The apartment has denied the allegations in court filings.Stephen Strum, the attorney representing the building, declined the AP’s requests for comment on the HUD case and said the pending lawsuit “merely alleges that my client did not properly follow the steps for evicting.”

To Doman, Webster’s case reflects a larger trend.“A lot of people that would have some recourse, at least through HUD investigating, really are just out on their own now,” she said. “It’s going to be harder for trans people to find safe, stable housing, and it’s very hard already.”

Tazz Webster, who ultimately wound up homeless after an apartment manager allegedly ridiculed and shoved him because he is transgender, exits through the front door of a community center, April 9, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Tazz Webster, who ultimately wound up homeless after an apartment manager allegedly ridiculed and shoved him because he is transgender, exits through the front door of a community center, April 9, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)Corruption scandals have dogged Portuguese politics in recent years. That has helped fuel the rise of Chega, whose leader Ventura says he has “zero tolerance” for misconduct in office.

But Chega has recently fallen foul of its own lawmakers’ alleged wrongdoing.One is suspected of stealing suitcases from the Lisbon airport and selling the contents online, and another allegedly faked the signature of a dead woman. Both resigned.

Chega owes much of its success to its demands for a tighter immigration policy that have resonated with voters.Portugal has witnessed a steep rise in immigration. In 2018, there were fewer than a half-million legal immigrants in the country, according to government statistics. By early this year, there were more than 1.5 million, many of them Brazilians and Asians working in tourism and farming.