SFist: Non-Profit Groups Moving Homeless Squatters Into Foreclosed Homes

The Angry Young Man

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:28:31 -0800

I'm sorry. I cannot approve of homeless people using foreclosed properties for housing so long as there are non-profit cooperative dildo galleries run by third world lesbians in search of affordable spaces in which to do performance art. Performance art must come before housing the homeless. This is San Francisco.

periqueblend

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:58:17 -0800

I don't know the particulars of your situation obviously, but these people are being required to keep up the bills and take care of the place. Those things actually do help get inventory cleared rather than being left empty where they fall apart. NPR did a story about this and focused on one group that was working w/ banks basically, because they preferred the certainty of the Nonprofits people to the uncertainty of squatters.

bluecanary

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:07:31 -0800

NY Times is rather slow. I read about this in the Chronicle several months ago, and it's happening in the bay area.

mmathers

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:55:33 -0800

Q: How to neighborhoods improve? A: The unsold residences are cleaned up and sold - quickly. How easy do you think it would be to move these properties if you had bums setting up shop inside? If these agencies want to help, they should pay the owners of the buildings money to let these people live there and guarantee any damage they do (example: stripping copper pipe, etc). Oh wait, that wouldn't be cool and twitterable... Moving squatters into forclosed residences is simply establishing people in places where they have no vested interest in the building and its upkeep. My family had squatters move into an 2-unit apartment building we owned behind some commerical property in Texas. The last tenants moved out and before you knew it, some worthless scum moved in. They threw trash, needles, and shit everywhere. It was disgusting. 2 weeks later we leveled the building to the ground.