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Showing posts with label VACANT HOMES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VACANT HOMES. Show all posts

Monday, August 5, 2013

HIJACKING THE NEWS IN MAPLE HEIGHTS

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Let's get this straight.


Channel 3 does a news report about a former Maple Heights police officer being accused of excessive force [who, by the way, was allowed to remain on the force until this year, and then allowed to resign (?)]; and then Channel 3 turns around and allows a sitting mayor to counter the bad press by doing a news clip about what a great job Maple Heights is doing hiring (what?) 7 Maple Heights landscapers (during the summer) to mow the grass on the hundreds of vacant properties in Maple Heights (where people have either walked away from or lost their homes)


What the hell!!



What a fickle press and what a great slick public relations job.



Black people in Maple Heights are complaining that there are more cases of excessive force and acts of police intimidation, and that gets brushed aside by what looks like, a predominately white government (in a predominately African American city) that appears more concerned with shutting people up and whitewashing and hijacking the news.  PRICELESS!!

 


Friday, December 14, 2012

WHO IS BUYING FORECLOSED HOMES AND WHY IT'S A PROBLEM

"Who's Buying Foreclosed Homes and Why It's a Problem
by Nate Berg (October 13, 2011)
 
 
Foreclosed homes tend to be problems for cities. They sit there, empty, unkempt, just asking for someone to break in. What they need and what governments at basically every level want is someone to buy them. Own them. Love them. Live in them.
 
 
So when a foreclosed property gets sold, the problem’s solved, right? Well, not exactly. According to a new study published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, property sales don’t lead to solutions because often the people buying foreclosed properties from banks are also investors looking to resell the property. But these predominantly small-time investors typically have fewer resources to spend on maintaining their homes as they sit on the market and wait for new buyers.
 
 
“A lot of them are being sold to an investor and staying vacant,” says Dan Immergluck, an urban planning professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the author of the study. “You have the same problem as before.”
 

READ THE ENTIRE HERE



NOTE:  A COMPANY CALLED CORELOGIC IS LISTED ON THE  PROPERTY TAX RECORDS [WHERE THE PERSON WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING TAXES IS LISTED] OF MILLIONS OF HOMES THROUGHOUT COUNTIES IN OHIO AND ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.  WHO IS CORELOGIC?  WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN  MAPLE HEIGHTS GOVERNMENT AND CORELOGIC? CLICK NUMBERS BELOW FOR SOME  INFORMATION
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Update on Corelogic:
The Illogic of CoreLogic, August 26, 2012