Looks more like a perfectly visible hand to me -- palm up.
Posted on 02/19/2008 5:09:08 AM PST by Libloather
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Homeless occupying abandoned homes: The invisible hand at work?
Looks more like a perfectly visible hand to me -- palm up.
So they don’t like homeless shelter because of the rules.
*roll eyes*
Too bad...
Don’t worry, Obama will make it all right. He’ll give these homes to the homeless. It will be perfect.
Heh. Good mornin', Trav. Perfect -- oh yeah. A regular Workers Paradise.
With his nice leather jacket you can tell he’s “Uptown Homeless” — William Reed is no cheap country bum dressing in layers of sweat pants and a plastic trash bag overcoat held together with safety pins who hangs out under a bridge overpass with a sixpack. Still, with his busy schedule even an Uptowner like William has no time to floss.
Because, as we all know, police occupy the same moral plane as drug dealers and are just as dangerous, /sarc.
This is a shame because the damage done by the squatters will affect the ones whose homes are in foreclosure. If I had a home in foreclosure I would make every effort to keep it intact until the next owner took possession.
We got a close up look at whole neighborhoods of empty homes in northern Florida last week.
Do tell Eric. Were you shopping for a home, just visiting, or what? Why do you think they were empty?
In Texas, many of those foreclosed homes are being stripped of all copper wiring, kitchen cabinets, built-in appliances, bathroom vanities and tubs...anything that can be resold.
It seems that the banks will have to completely refurbish or bulldoze some previously nice homes, which is a foolish way to run a business. It would have been much more cost-effective to keep the occupants in with a reduced monthly mortgage payment.
Appears to me that there is a golden opportunity to create a new business simply checking foreclosed houses for squatters. $75.00-$100.00 buck a month per home for a daily physical check to see if entry has been made. 25-50 house checks daily....hmmm.
Then, in the near future, there will be the 'Homeless home heating crisis'. The homeless occupying homes will not be able to afford the heating bill.
Yet I know men like William, and in seeing him I think of them -- they are homeless because the condition suits their way of getting by in life. They are able men -- even some of them physically mighty. They can work they have smarts. Yet if life can be had by begging and living "free" they will do it.
Helping them stay in that near-feral condition is no help to them or us. When we gift them leather jackets, that "gift" enables them to sleep in the streets or woods or under bridges most nights -- better they have clothing that forces them into our city's caring places where we charge them only some acclimation towards being a civilized man for the comfort.
Treat them like the men they are.
William, see a dentist.
Do you believe that all those homes were vacated by people who bought, but couldn’t afford, the homes? The whole neighborhood is in foreclosure?
It certainly looked that way. In one block with 12 homes, 10 were empty with the real estate padlocks on the door, yards not cared for. It was an eye opener for me.
I’m not sure what my PC response should be to this article. Do I go with the mean banks foreclosing on poor consumers response or the thank goodness the homeless have been helped response?
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