Take Back the Land
I
just heard about Take Back the
Land. The group is working to put homeless folks into vacant, foreclosed homes.
Not through banks, courts, or legislative action, but by break-in!
To be clear, the squatters are not criminal crack-heads. They are foreclosure victims themselves, vetted to insure they will care for the property like--well--homeowners. In addition, the group only appropriates long-vacant homes owned by TARP-endowed banks.
It resonates as the right, the moral, and the necessary solution. It is immoral for institutions to push humans onto the street, and then hold empty homes against future profits. Even more when the institutions are taking our money to do so.
At the same time, it is shocking. I am astounded, not at this solution, but at the state of America! I would never have imagined that America could sink so low. That such drastic means would be needed just to house our working population and maintain our residential neighborhoods. That we continue to accept, reward, & lionize the bankers who have brought us to this pass. For shame! The bankers should be living on the street while the Take Back the Land staff run the banks!
By the way, so far, no neighbors have complained.
To be clear, the squatters are not criminal crack-heads. They are foreclosure victims themselves, vetted to insure they will care for the property like--well--homeowners. In addition, the group only appropriates long-vacant homes owned by TARP-endowed banks.
It resonates as the right, the moral, and the necessary solution. It is immoral for institutions to push humans onto the street, and then hold empty homes against future profits. Even more when the institutions are taking our money to do so.
At the same time, it is shocking. I am astounded, not at this solution, but at the state of America! I would never have imagined that America could sink so low. That such drastic means would be needed just to house our working population and maintain our residential neighborhoods. That we continue to accept, reward, & lionize the bankers who have brought us to this pass. For shame! The bankers should be living on the street while the Take Back the Land staff run the banks!
By the way, so far, no neighbors have complained.
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