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To Fight Poverty, Tear Down HUD
nytimes.com — With the nation embroiled in a housing crisis, the Department of Housing and Urban Development ’s sidelined role is a product of its anachronistic approach.
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- AmyVernon, on 07/25/2008, -0/+13I almost hate to say it, but there's a lot of truth in here.. So much of our bureaucratic infrastructure would be best dismantled and something new built in its place... it's much harder to reform than rebuild.
- DrPaul2008, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1You had me until the "..and something new built in its place".
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -0/+12It definitely sounds like they had a series of bad decisions in the late 90s and ignored their core mission.
- louiebaur, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Agreed
- sogeshirts, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1yeah they blew it.
- louiebaur, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Agreed
- MommaLu, on 07/25/2008, -1/+7Government should stay out of charity. Leave charity to charity organizations. Government is too wasteful and it's not their money to spend. Where charitable organizations count for every single dollar.
- razorsharpwit, on 07/25/2008, -1/+5I'm with you momma lu
- Eavesdropping, on 07/25/2008, -1/+2Definitely leave charity to charity and keep government's big wasteful paws out of it. Every HUD project in my city is a big crap hole anyway.
- Fangsinmybeard, on 07/26/2008, -0/+5This opinion does not consider the millions of families left completely homeless by the mortgage crash. How are we suppose to deal with the exponential growth of poverty related crime that will eventually occur? What about the mortality rate of rich home owners that will have to sacrifice their lives to the angry mobs of squatters that will eventually take over their vast estates? What will happen when all the banker home owners end up getting bombed to death by the hundreds of thousands of out of work PhD.'s?
- JD52, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2What did "Heads Up Display" ever do to you?
- nate5532, on 07/26/2008, -0/+0I am actually looking at buying a house and the $ goes much further if you buy hud homes/foreclosures. I hate to gain from someones loss, but again, I need a house. Obviously the number of forclosures is crazy.
What is REALLY crazy is the number of tax liens, bankruptcy's and preforclosures that are around (I live in Ohio, one of the states hit WORST buy foreclosures). I signed up for a site that shows me this info, absolutly SICKENING....
... but again, I need a house
At least when I buy a house it will be fixed and kept up increasing neighbors property value instead of 10 houses on one block being vacant, over grown, *****. 10 on a block is NOT uncommon here in ohio. Some are even next door to each other.
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