 Landlords would demand unmanageable rents from residents, even though apartments were sometimes not connected to water and telephone lines.Residents organized to halt evictions by developing strong networks, informing each other of pending evictions, and on the day of the intended evictions, they would telephone each other when the police entered the neighborhoods and residents would gather in the streets and physically prevent police from entering the neighborhood.As a result of this activism, fewer evictions occurred in Magliana over time.