Quote Originally Posted by compn View Post
http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2014/1...00-properties/

everyone remembers that plan to shut water off and hope people give up and run away?
that failed when it became a global news story.

water shutoffs being inhumane and all, but foreclosures arent inhumane. its just business as usual.
the new plan? cant take the water, might as well take the entire house.

you're right, they werent paying taxes, so how were they helping the city/county at all? they still buy food [[presumably) in the city, thus the food business pays taxes. if you remove 80k people ability to live here , wont that affect all other businesses ?

80k more bank/county owned properties with no way to secure them against scrappers.

what about rick snyders plan to get 50k people to move to detroit? is that before or after foreclosing on 100k properties in the past 2 years and 80k properties next year?
I echo what everyone else here has said. However, I'd like to add:

You're full of complaints but no solutions.

Listen, I live in the city and pay my own way. Then again, I have a middle class job. However, I know a guy across the street who has a lot of issues but has worked out a tax payment plan with the county. He's back on his taxes but works his ass off and worked with the county to stay in his home.

The question, I believe, is how to bring those resources and solutions TO the people who are behind or unable to pay. My only real complain with the water shutoff is that they seemed to introduce more of the programs to help people after they started shutoffs.

That said, if you're not going to pay, you're not going to stay.