Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard faces eviction, landlord speaks out: ‘I have nowhere else to turn’

DOLTON, Illinois. – Controversial Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard You have a new war on your hands. being evacuated Henyard’s landlord talks about his tenant problem because he hasn’t paid his rent.

Together, Henyard and her boyfriend, Kamal Woods, are pulling in over $300,000 in taxpayer money, according to public payroll records.

But they haven’t paid their rent since August, and their landlord said he’s had enough.

“I didn’t want to be on camera at first. I’m not the kind of person who does it for clickbait. I’m not that kind of person,” Genetta Hull said. “But right now I feel like I’m at my wits end. I have nowhere else to go.”

Hull said he once considered Henyard a friend and even did campaign work for Dolton’s mayor and Thornton Township supervisor.

But things changed in 2021 as he was about to rent the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home he owned in Dolton to a family, until he received a late-night call from the mayor.

“Then he said, ‘I heard you’re renting your house.’ And I said, ‘yeah, there’s someone moving in here soon,'” Hull said. “And he says, ‘No, they can’t move because I want them to.’ And I said, ‘Excuse me?’ I said.”

Feeling under pressure, Hull said he agreed to rent the house to Henyard and Woods, who had a six-figure job in the county.

Henyard earns about $300,000 as mayor and county supervisor, but is the focus of an ongoing FBI investigation over excessive spending, questionable contracts and the use of tax dollars for personal gain.

Hull said things started to unravel this summer when he had to raise the rent from $200 a month to $2,400 a month because property taxes rose again.

“With that, I had to equate it to rent, and Kamal said he couldn’t afford it,” Hull said.

Hull said Henyard and Woods refused to pay the extra rent in August, then stopped paying altogether and failed to deliver rent checks for September and October.

Not only was he several thousand dollars behind in rent, Hull said, but they also changed the locks and the code to his garage door so he couldn’t get in.

“I think if I went in there with a locksmith and tried to get them back to normal, he’d probably get me arrested,” Hull said.

So Hull went to court in late September and filed for eviction against Henyard and Woods, but Cook County sheriffs tried and failed to serve the lawsuit on both the home and the village.

Now Hull is paying a process server to track down one of them.

“It’s a very difficult position. I’m between a rock and a hard place,” Hull said. “I haven’t worked for several months and I’m afraid of losing my home.”

He said Henyard blocked him months ago but wanted to send a message to the embattled mayor.

“You have to understand that at some point karma will catch up with you. Just pay your rent,” Hull said.

Hull said even if Henyard and her boyfriend found the money, she still wanted them out of her house, which was rented on a month-to-month lease.

Fox 32 has reached out to the couple and Henyard’s criminal defense attorney but has not received a response so far.