A little background information on Detroit. When housing prices crashed in 2008 the house evaluations for tax purposes did not get lowered. Savvy people were able to get a lawyer and appeal to get their taxes lowered.
People would fall behind and their houses were sold to investors at auction. The investors would rent out the houses for three years without paying taxes. Then using a different corporation buy the house back three years later paying a fraction of the back tax bill and begin anew.
Loveland Technologies is trying to break that cycle. They've got a mobile app along with mapping the houses facing foreclosure and they're trying to recruit people to canvas neighborhoods to educate those living in houses facing foreclosure. There are programs to help them, programs to enable renters to buy the houses they live in but no one is educating people.
In Detroit when people are evicted what happens lots of times is strippers move in removing anything of value, even stripping plumbing and wiring out of the walls to sell the copper. Eventually arsonists set the house on fire and this is slowly destroying Detroit neighborhoods. Sadly city and country government aren't doing anything about it.
> In Detroit when people are evicted what happens lots of times is strippers move in removing anything of value, even stripping plumbing and wiring out of the walls to sell the copper. Eventually arsonists set the house on fire and this is slowly destroying Detroit neighborhoods. City and country government aren't doing anything about it.
Why aren't property owners doing something about it (which might include just not evicting people when they are legally able to, since clearly there is a high cost to doing so)?
People would fall behind and their houses were sold to investors at auction. The investors would rent out the houses for three years without paying taxes. Then using a different corporation buy the house back three years later paying a fraction of the back tax bill and begin anew.
Loveland Technologies is trying to break that cycle. They've got a mobile app along with mapping the houses facing foreclosure and they're trying to recruit people to canvas neighborhoods to educate those living in houses facing foreclosure. There are programs to help them, programs to enable renters to buy the houses they live in but no one is educating people.
In Detroit when people are evicted what happens lots of times is strippers move in removing anything of value, even stripping plumbing and wiring out of the walls to sell the copper. Eventually arsonists set the house on fire and this is slowly destroying Detroit neighborhoods. Sadly city and country government aren't doing anything about it.
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