Well, I forgot I made this topic (IE: I was probably wasted). Sorry to bump it, but there's such an amusing epilogue to this story that I can't NOT share it.
1) My brother was apparently a deadbeat. He didn't pay rent for almost 4 months before I moved in with him, and he often wasn't paying his share. The amount he owed, however, was still well under what we were evicted for.
2) My downstairs neighbor was on disability-related assistance, and Housing Authority informed her a couple months ago (I stopped by to check if there was anything that came in for me) that they would no longer pay her rent bc our landlord refused to make the house "in an inhabitable condition". Fucker never came by after we moved out to inspect the place, and now that the downstairs neighbor is out, he stopped paying his property taxes. The house is in forclosure, and I'm seriously considering putting in a bid for it, even though it's so shitty.