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Somebody's Dream Home
Image by elycefeliz
This house has been foreclosed and is now up for sale - nobody's living there now. The front door had a leaded glass window in the door, so it looks like the people who lived there were fixing it up - I looked in the windows, and it was nicely painted - in the back, a small kitchen, but with new cabinets and electric range. I think the people who lived here really loved their home and took care to improve it -
I felt sad, but grateful for my own home -
Gratitude Series - photo #101
Occupy Our Homes - Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
The fight to reclaim democracy from the banks is growing from Wall Street to Main Street.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6th Occupy Wall Street will join in solidarity with a Brooklyn, NY community to liberate a foreclosed home.
This action is part of a national kick-off for a new frontier for the occupy movement: the liberation of vacant bank-owned homes for those in need, and the defense of families under threat of foreclosure and eviction. Actions will take place in more than 20 cities across the country on Tuesday.
Along the way, we will take stock of foreclosed properties for the growing Occupy Real Estate Listing Service, so families can reclaim foreclosed homes in their neighborhood — and connect with allies in their communities to defend the human right to a home.
The banks got bailed out, but our families across America are getting kicked out.
Millions of Americans lost their homes in the Wall Street recession and one in four homeowners are currently underwater on their mortgages. The 99% is bearing the brunt of a crisis caused by Wall Street and big banks.
That's why, all across the country, Americans have begun standing up to the banks that are trying to evict them. The NYC foreclosure tour and home re-occupation is part of a big national day of action on December 6 that will focus on the foreclosure crisis and protest fraudulent lending practices, corrupt securitization, and illegal evictions by banks.
Wall Street and the big banks are making record profits while most Americans are struggling to stay in their homes. Banks break the law with impunity, but millions of us get served with eviction. Banks make trillions and get bailouts, while we face record unemployment and record debt.
No more! Our system has been serving Wall Street, big banks, and the one percent.
We are the 99%. We are reclaiming our democracy. And we are reclaiming our homes.
There Goes the Neighborhood
Across America, recession-fueled foreclosures and plummeting home values have left countless properties abandoned and vulnerable to looting. As Scott Pelley reports, the problem has gotten so bad in Cleveland, Ohio, that county officials have demolished more than 1,000 homes this year - and plan to demolish 20,000 more - rather than let the blight spread and render nearby homes worthless.
The new threat from the great recession is the sudden surge in the number of abandoned houses. Vacant homes have become so ruinous to some neighborhoods that one city, Cleveland, decided it had to find a solution.
Perfectly good homes, worth 75, 100 thousand dollars or more a couple of years ago, are being ripped to splinters in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Here, the great recession left one fifth of all houses vacant. The owners walked away because they couldn't or wouldn't keep paying on a mortgage debt that can be twice the value of the home. Cleveland waited four years for home values to recover and now they've decided to face facts and bury the dead.
Do you know how much your home is worth?
Image by Prudential Preferred Realty
Home values in Pittsburgh are steady - far above the national average! If you are thinking of selling your property, there really is no better time - and
no better place than Western Pennsylvania!
AustinVALUE1940
Image by urbanoasis
Home values of owner-occupied units in Austin. Again, you can see the least valuable home are in East Austin, the yellow-cream area in the southeast. I'm somewhat surprised to see the most valuable owner-occupied units to be right around the UT campus. Certainly the monocentric-population density model of land values would indicate this, but there is a lot of other stuff going on, like the beginning of suburban development, potential conflict with the growing student body, etc.
