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[dixiegrrrrl]

24. that is the sad truth of it.

We have empty houses on my block.
With big for sale signs on them.
Let's say we decide that a homeless family gets one of the empty houses up the street from me.
I have no problem with that, it is sitting there, not being used.
It is OWNED by the deceased member's family, who are trying to sell it.

How does the family afford the power/water deposit?
How do they pay the (average) 300.00 utility bill for heat in the winter and A/C in the summer here.?
They need to have a car ( you cannot walk the 5 miles to the grocery store in 110 heat index here)
They need a job to pay for the car insurance, gas, maintenance, housing expenses, repairs, etc.
We have 24% unemployment in this county.
A large number of people here are living on various retirement funds, esp. in this older established neighborhood.

A lot of empty houses are in suburbs, or places like Detroit, where whole neighborhoods have been abandoned, no services exist, so much so that the Mayor had decided some time ago to simply write them off entirely.
(THAT caused a huge uproar, remember?)

Please hear me....I KNOW we have a huge problem in this country.
but we need to think thru any proposed solutions.