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RALEIGH — Bob Stillerman, associate pastor of Millbrook Baptist Church, knows that giving sausage-and-egg biscuits to 100 hungry people in a downtown Raleigh park is a short-term solution for a long-term problem.
To Stillerman, that doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
"You have to balance the long-term solutions with, 'What can I do today?'" said Stillerman, who came with nine Millbrook Baptist volunteers Saturday to give homemade breakfast biscuits those who waited in line at Moore Square.
"I can't give you a job today. I can't give you a house today. But I can give you a biscuit, and I can give you a hug and let you know that someone cares about you, and I can pray with you."
Last week, it looked as if volunteers might not actually be able to give the hungry a biscuit – or any other food – at Moore Square, as they had been doing for six years. Police told leaders of Love Wins Ministries, which organizes the work of area churches to provide the weekend morning meals, that officers would enforce a city ordinance banning the distribution of food in Raleigh parks without a permit.
A permit costs $350 plus a $500 deposit. Love Wins didn't have one.
The Rev. Hugh Hollowell, leader of Love Wins, wrote about the police intervention in a blog post that went viral, and dozens of speakers came to a City Council committee meeting to complain about the crackdown. The committee decided to hold off enforcing the rule, gather more information and let the full City Council take up the matter in November.
The free repasts are a way to fill in food gaps for those in need. Other charities and tax-supported organizations focus on weekday needs, but on Saturdays and Sundays, it can be more of a challenge for the poor and the homeless to find an affordable meal.
Stanley McDougald, 27, has been homeless since he got out of jail in early June for a misdemeanor offense. He had a job offer in Clayton, he said, but he has no place to stay in Johnston County, and can't afford daily bus rides from Raleigh, where he has been sleeping at local shelters, at the home of an uncle and on park benches. He heard he could get breakfast at Moore Square on Saturdays, so he came and got in line.
"I appreciate y'all taking time out of your day to make biscuits and bring them out here," he told a volunteer who handed him a foil-wrapped sandwich. "Y'all don't have to do that, and I sure appreciate it."
McDougald also picked up a granola bar, a juice box and a bar of soap, tucking the last into the backpack that holds his change of clothing. After breakfast, he said, he planned to fill out more job applications using a computer at the Wake County public library or at N.C. State University.
"Anything and everything," he said, when asked what kind of work he'd take.
Is a biscuit the answer?
Some social workers believe that handouts are counter-productive and that those who are struggling, especially the chronically homeless, should be encouraged to work through social-service organizations designed to help them get on their feet. There are local programs that try to help with drug- and alcohol-abuse problems, mental-health counseling, education, job training and placement, affordable housing, budgeting and other issues that can contribute to homelessness and poverty.
Others have objected to the food giveaways for different reasons, saying they contribute to trash in Moore Square and give the park and the area around it a reputation as a magnet for the homeless. Owners of nearby businesses have complained in the past about panhandling.
With the economy improving, the area around Moore Square on the eastern edge of downtown has become of interest to developers. Apartments and office towers are in the works and more projects are expected, including on the former Salvation Army property, which the City of Raleigh bought this year for $2.1 million after the group move north of downtown.
City officials have said that allowing charities to use city property to distribute food could expose the city to liability if something goes awry.
Compassion now
The Rev. Hollie Woodruff, who lives two blocks from Moore Square and works part time for Love Wins as the group's director of faith and community partnerships, said poverty and homelessness are intransigent problems that require time-consuming, one-on-one work with individuals in crisis. While that work is ongoing, she said, people are uncomfortable seeing the poor in a public park.
"You want to see people with money," she said. "You want a place to be attractive to tourists. You don't want people to be scared."
Another group, Wake Area Mission Ministries, has been working to establish "care points" for the poor elsewhere in the county, and the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina has offered its parking lot on West Morgan Street to charities that want to use it to provide meals.
For now, those working with Love Wins will continue to serve weekend morning meals from Moore Square. The group used its website Saturday to thank Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane and City Council for "bringing back our breakfast."
Sara Acosta, spokeswoman for the group, said, "We recognize that this is not a permanent solution, but merely the first step toward making Raleigh a truly hospitable city."
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The Earth dodged one bullet Friday with the close passage of asteroid 2012 DA14, which came within 17,000 miles of the Earths surface. There was never any danger the calculation of its orbit showed it would not hit us. One thing we astronomers and rocket scientists are good at is computing orbits and trajectories. That rock was about the size of a 10-story building and half a city block long. Such rocks do hit us about every thousand years. The mile-wide Meteor Crater in Arizona was the result of such a hit about 50,000 years ago.
The Russians were a little less lucky Friday, with a rock perhaps a tenth that size vaporizing above them. The shock waves blew out hundreds of windows, injuring more than 1,000 people. A similar but larger object exploded over Siberia in 1908, flattening trees for more than 1,000 square miles.
We should pause to note that 2012 DA14 was discovered only last year. How many unknown killer rocks are out there?
While the close passage of 2012 DA14 was not visible to U.S. viewers, a couple of less threatening rocks are going to be visible this year. In March we will hopefully catch a glimpse of comet PanSTARRS, which could become a fairly bright object in the dusk sky. One obstacle is that it will be very low at a half hour after sunset it will be only about 5 to 10 degrees above the western horizon. Ten degrees is about a fist-width at arms length. Look for it in starting about 5 degrees to the south of due west on March 10 and moving night-to-night higher and northward until it is about 10 degrees north of west on March 20. It will continue northward and higher, but fainter, through May. It will be a good object for binoculars.
PanSTARRS was discovered by a robotically operated telescope in Hawaii that searches for asteroids and comets that could strike Earth. Comets are named for their discoverers, and in this case it was this automatic telescope.
We think this comet will be bright but more difficult to predict, with more unknowns than in orbit calculations. Comets are dirty snowballs, or maybe snowy rocks; the mixture of rock and ice varies from comet to comet. The ice is heated by the sun, sublimates to gas and is excited by the sunlight. Dust that escapes reflects sunlight, too. So, forecasting the brightness of comets is difficult.
In November we will bookend our year with the appearance of another, potentially much brighter comet, also named after its discovery telescope, ISON. Stay tuned for details.
If we are still here.
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Upon seeing the LowLuv costume collection, we immediately wondered how Wasson herself would wear the pieces and incorporate them into her covetable closet. Thankfully we've got the lovely lady on direct dial and she was gracious enough to share all of her spring essentials with usÂ--everything from her favorite bangles to the fragrance she's currently wearing. Please feel free to feast on all of her picks; we know we will be reaching for seconds ourselves!
Alexander Wang for Linda Farrow Silver Zipper Sunglasses ($365)
Longtime friends and collaborators, Wasson and Wang have a natural affinity for each other's aesthetic. So it makes sense that the model-muse would opt for these edgy-yet-effortless Silver Zip frames from Wang's debut sunglass collection with Linda FarrowÂ--they are impossibly cool!
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- In a large bowl, toss together the coleslaw mix, green onions and broccoli. Set aside.
- Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Crumble the ramen noodles into a bowl, and mix with the almonds and sunflower seeds. Sprinkle the seasoning packets over all. Add to the skillet; cook and stir until noodles and nuts are toasted, about 8 minutes.
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I made a few changes that made this wonderful. First when making the dressing, I used only 1/3 cup sugar. It is plenty. If you want to use Splenda to make it sugar free that would work as well. I will probably try that next time. I also used olive oil instead of vegetable oil. Instead of the Chicken Ramen Noodles, I used Oriental. This flavor seems to compliment this recipe more so. One last change I made to the dressing was adding the packet of orienal seasoning mix to the actual dressing and not the nut mix. This makes it much more flavorful. When I sauteed the nut mix I only used 1/4 cup butter. Just trying to cut back on the fat and it works! My kids love this!
I just made this and it is wonderful. I would give it a ten if I could! I do have some tips that I hope will help-break the noodles up into small pieces so they toast evenly, make sure the sugar is well blended into the dressing ingredients, add the dressing a little at a time to the salad mixing well after each addition and make this in a very large bowl. I did toast the nuts separately and advise that you wait until the nuts and noodles are cool before adding them to the slaw.
Loved it, but I made some changes that we delightful. Too lazy to prep broccoli, so I used broccoli slaw. Cut sugar to 1/3 cup on advice of other reviewers. Substituted cashews and pistachios because I didn't have almonds and sunflower seeds. Added about 1 c. of sliced grapes (someone else did this, and it sounded good...could have cut sugar even more). Took it to a church meal and got rave reviews, and I'm ready to make up a batch for another event this weekend. Love it, and so easy...
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Amount Per Serving (12 total)
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- 395 cal
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- 44%
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what type of mom did you think you would be (before having kids) versus the type of mom you actually ARE?
For me I thought I would be Super Strict and follow ALL the rules. But actually I am so laid back and simple with my LO. I Never thought I would be like this. I guess because my mom was so strict. what about YOU?
I've turned out to be pretty laid back to an extent. But since DD#2 is going to be here in less then 3 weeks I've gotten more strict about some things like bedtime and making her stay in bed. I do believe in spanking for certain things like when she's in danger like climbing things or getting in the drawers that she knows she not souppose to. Or for repeat offenses. I'm not over bearing or anything like that. And actually get told by alot of people that I'm to laid back but I think I'm really strict. I guess I just have a good kid for the most part who dosn't make me be mean all the time.
He climbs on the table, I get him down and re-direct his attention. He tries to unplug things, I move him away and re-direct. Etc, etc.
As the children grow older and understand discipline better, I do become stricter and have more stringent expectations.
I guess I'm the type of mom who allows her kids to have fun and be kids, but I'm also a mom who expects organization and structure in the house, therefore I don't let the kiddos swing from the curtains like monkeys and eat chocolate on the carpet. ;) I also don't allow them to be disrespectful to each other, which becomes harder and harder to stop when they start school and hear things from other kids.
Bottom line is, you HAVE to have rules. Our job as parents is to raise our children to be happy, healthy, self-sufficient, self-confident adults.
Now that he is getting close to hitting that 2 year old mark he is still pretty much on his own schedule, and he lets you know when he wants to eat or go night-night. Which is super duper cute.
I do try to have him eat healthy, but then again he loves French fries and chicken nuggets, but I don"019t give him pop or a lot of sugary snacks. But I am not a healthy food freak (especially for myself).
He gets 12 hours of sleep a night and he eats like a champ. He is a big, healthy little boy. Who I love so much!
But I am trying to get myself prepared for LO#2 arrival and I have this feeling that she is going to be NOTHING like her brother in these aspects. So I guess we"019ll see how strict I might become"026haha!
Trust me when I say that if you don't set boundaries when they are young, it's very hard to re-teach them as they get older. Believe me when I say that.
Right now it's all about having fun. It should be! They're only little once. But--they still need to have boundaries.
As an example--My cousin's little boy has been allowed to hit/slap/pinch/bite/kick/scream/yell from the time he was ver small. They laughed at him, because he was little and cute. But now he's in first grade, and she's at the school at least twice a week because of his behavior problems. If she had stopped him when he was little (instead of laughing it off) she wouldn't have that problem now.
JMHO, but you can still let kids be kids and have rules at the same time.
Then No. 2 came along, and I was kinda the same mom as above, only now I allowed cookies, suckers, a binky, threw the flashcards out the window, let her watch movies while I chilled and read a Cosmo magazine, let her run around the yard at 2 p.m. while still in her pjs, didn't potty train her until she was nearly 3, read books daily but not to the extreme as with No. 1, brushed her teeth maybe every day, sometimes didn't brush her hair until daddy was about to arrive home from work, and basically just chilled out a bit more as a mom.
Then No. 3 came along and I let her climb on my kitchen table, the end tables, climbs the stairs cuz there's no gate, I don't brush her teeth but a few times a week (I give her the toothbrush nightly and let her have at it, LOL), she's lucky if her hair gets brushed at all during the day, she runs in puddles, plays in mud, her nose runs and I use her shirt to wipe it up if there's no tissue in proximity (yuck, but I'm being truthful here), let her run around all day with a binky in her mouth, she still uses a bottle for naps/bedtime. We DO, however, read books daily.
So I've definitely evolved/morphed over time.
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What do you do when your deepest, darkest secrets are revealed and bring an end to your marriage? Cash in and write a tell-all memoir, if you're Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The former governor, actor, and one-time bodybuilder has a "60 Minutes" interview that is set to air on Sunday. Schwarzenegger talks candidly about the affair and child that brought his marriage to Maria Shriver to an end.
The interview, a promotion for his memoir, "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story," which will be released on Monday, delves into his account of how Shriver confronted him and his feelings about the whole debacle.
In a report of the interview, by Daily News, Schwarzenegger is quoted as saying "I think it was the stupidest thing I've done in the whole relationship," regarding his actions with the couples' former housekeeper.
He can add his tell-all autobiography to the list of stupid things he's done now that the relationship is over. The fact that Shriver and Schwarzenegger have four children together will keep them bonded forever.
And, unfortunately, now all of their family secrets, or Schwarzenegger's I should say, are not only open for all the public to read, but their kids as well. Not to mention the 14-year-old child Schwarzenegger fathered as a result of his extra-marrital activities.
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The government knows best ???
A fb friend of mine posted an image of a bunch of blacked out words but a few that were left in said 'the government knows best'
This is obviously in regards to the blackout of a bunch of different websites due to certain bills being passed.
I don't understand how some people can so blindly follow something 'just because'...
Don't you have a mind for yourself? Can't you think on your own?
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Back in December, the first shoe fell when local officials said assessed property values in Vigo County had dropped by more than $300 million, about 7.5 percent. Since then, officials, including Mayor Duke Bennett, have been wondering what this would mean for their budgets.
Many have been expecting the worst.
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Because of the higher rates, more properties in Vigo County have hit their caps, making it harder for the city and other taxing entities to raise all the money they hoped to spend.
According to budget figures released last week, the property tax caps will reduce property tax revenue for the City of Terre Haute by about $9 million this year.
"That's more than we anticipated," said Leslie Ellis, city controller. In recent years, the caps have cost the city between $6- and 7 million, she said.
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Because of the tax caps, it seems certain the city is going to need to make significant cuts this year, Ellis said. So far in 2013, the city has managed to stay within its budget, which was approved by state officials in March, she said.
At the end of the first quarter of the year, the city had spent about 24 percent of the money approved for its critical general fund, Ellis said. The general fund is the city's biggest single fund and is used to pay for salaries and many other day-to-day city expenses.
Indiana's Department of Local Government Finance approved a general fund budget of $33.2 million for the city. That means the city has spent about $7.9 million of its approved general fund budget so far this year.
The other big line items in the city's budget include police officer and firefighter pensions. Together, those total about $5 million in the 2013 budget.
The city's street department — which handles everything from leaf pickup to pot hole repairs, is another big ticket item. That department's budget is $3.8 million this year, of which about 17 percent — or $650,000 — has been spent so far this year.
The Terre Haute Parks and Recreation Department is another big item in the budget. The parks budget was approved about $2.6 million for 2013, of which about 18 percent — or $486,000 million — has been spent, according to figures provided by Ellis.
A final budget item with annual expenses of more than $1 million is the city's transportation department, which provides bus service. That department's approved budget was about $1.4 million for 2013 — significantly less than the city hoped to spend. About 20 percent of the transportation budget had been spent by the end of the first quarter, according to Ellis.
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Apart from property taxes, the city receives revenue from a number of other sources. Those sources include the county's wheel tax, the county's economic development income tax, the regular county income tax and taxes on alcoholic beverages. In the first quarter, these other sources of revenue reached about $2.9 million, according to figures provided by the city.
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09.03.13 - 3:26 pm | Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez |
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From the Chevron refinery explosion to deepening pain of the housing crisis, the city of Richmond has endured a lot.
Walk through Richmond's Iron Triangle neighborhood and the signs of economic turmoil are everywhere. Homes there have been foreclosed or abandoned for years. Some windows are boarded up, others shattered. In lieu of decorations, signs bearing "DO NOT ENTER" warnings are posted on every other door. Bedding peeks out from beneath one of the abandoned homes.
Despite the neighborhood's struggle, life goes on.
Families still live here. Just around the corner from the worst of the crumbling houses children ran after an ice cream truck, whose music could be heard blocks away. The ice cream man, Ank Talwar, said that the crumbling neighborhood had seen progress.
"It's better than before," he told the Guardian. Speaking through a metal barricade in his window, he said five years ago the neighborhood was nearly uninhabitable due to crime.
It's that tenuous progress that Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin points to when justifying Richmond's controversial plan to use eminent domain to seize over 600 underwater mortgages, which would allow families to make payments to the city instead of the banks.
The most important aspect of this plan, she says, is that those families get to stay in their homes.
When Richmond's plan to use eminent domain to seize mortgages was first unveiled, it triggered a national debate. It's a legal tactic typically used by governments to seize land needed for public use — parks, freeways, or other major infrastructure projects.
The seizure plan's opponents say that this is a twisted use of eminent domain and a government overreach meant to siphon money rather than benefit the public good. But however one views the city's solution, nobody can argue that the underwater mortgages haven't caused trouble for Richmond.
In a legal declaration, City Manager William Lindsay detailed the lingering pain in the wake of the housing crisis.
"According to the city's research, Richmond has one of the worst situations in the country, with approximately 51 percent of homeowners underwater on mortgage debt," he wrote. In the past three years, Richmond has been slammed by more than 2,000 foreclosures.
Like a spreading infection, the disease of debt doesn't just affect homeowners.
There are hundreds of vacant homes in Richmond, Lindsay wrote, attracting rats, criminals, and dumping from neighbors. One of the abandoned properties the Guardian visited had a sea of garbage that filled the entire yard: mattresses, broken televisions, baby seats, and other abandoned items.
Property values took a hit too, which Lindsay wrote had a "catastrophic impact" on Richmond's tax base, declining from $48 million in 2007 to $41 million in 2012, a more than 14 percent decrease. Lowered tax revenue forced Richmond to cut its city staff by about 200 workers.
Families were losing their homes, neighbors were living in wrecked neighborhoods, and the city hemorrhaged money. To put it bluntly, Richmond was desperate.
That's where Mortgage Resolution Partners came in.
harder. Too bad for them, I guess.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 03, 2013 @ 4:20 pm
taking and, moreover, one that effectively steals value from the legal owners of an obligation.
I have no problem with Richmond offering to buy mortgages and refinance them, if the voters and taxpayers of the city approve that. But using eminent domain to force owners to accept offers that are way below market is stretching the idea of eminent domain into a legalized mugging, and the courts will bounce this.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 03, 2013 @ 4:28 pm
underwrite their muni bonds. Must be a coincidence huh?
Posted by Guest on Sep. 03, 2013 @ 4:30 pm
house until the sale is complete, the lender gets a market rate for the loan, and a new owner gets a bargain.
Anything else is financial engineering, which is what got us into this mess in the first place. This Richmond idea is horrible and, almost definitely, illegal.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 03, 2013 @ 4:34 pm
Sorry but it is. I feel bad for people that are underwater and in trouble- I truly do. However, the reality is that they took out the loans- in many cases they took cold cash out to use for various things, now they get a sweet deal and the banks either get forced to take a lower price or risk this eminent domain BS. Totally wrong. ED is fine if you are building a road etc., not because your citizens made poor choices.
Posted by Whackamole on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 8:18 am
loans must have known they were too good to be true, that their home value and earnings could not justify it, and that they would never be able to pay them back.
To try and bail them out by stealing from those who trusted them enough to lend them money is wrong, and I feel sure the courts will reject this as a taking.
I recall a case in SF where the woman had owned the home since the 1970's, during which time it had increased tenfold in value, and the owner continually took cash-out HELOC's to feed her spending habits while the loan got bigger and bigger. Then she tried to fight foreclosure.
The best way to get the housing market back on it's feet is to foreclose these homes and then sell them to those who can actually afford them. There are signs that Bay Area RE is rebounding with prices up 12% in the last year, so in fact we may only have to wait and do nothing.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 8:33 am
yes, and those poor helpless banks simply had no choice but to lend money to people with insufficient income, assets, and I'll guess financial literacy. it takes two to tango baby. and i'm going to say that the banks were the lead partner in that dance.
Posted by MossyBuddha on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 11:11 am
Take away the greed of these borrowers, and the banks could never have made those loans.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 11:28 am
> "Take away the greed of these borrowers, and the banks could never have made those loans. "
Oh, PLEASE!! "Greed of the borrowers" ?? The banks seem to be doing just fine, now that they got BAILED out with our money, and then gave themselves bonuses.
Posted by Arbusto on Sep. 05, 2013 @ 2:22 pm
there is little question that the banks could have done none of these things if not for the suspension of disbelief by borrowers who thought they could dine out forever using their house as an ATM.
I have little sympathy for a borrower who borrowed 120% of the value of the hope, with no down, on interest only or neg-am terms, and thought that was a prudent move.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 05, 2013 @ 2:41 pm
From Joe Stiglitz talking about international debt crises, which is perfectly apt in this case. "In debt crises, blame tends to fall on the debtors. They borrowed too much. But the creditors are equally to blame – they lent too much and imprudently. Indeed, lenders are supposed to be experts on risk management and assessment, and in that sense, the onus should be on them. The risk of default or debt restructuring induces creditors to be more careful in their lending decisions."
Read more at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/argentina-s-debt-and-america...
Posted by MossyBuddha on Sep. 06, 2013 @ 8:45 am
professionals and experts agree that we cannot simply bail out every homeowner. And if we did, then we would have to bail out the banks again as they are the ones who would be taking the hit on these loans if the courts do not reject Richmond's idea.
In the end, there just isn't enough money to bail out everyone, so there has to be pain.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 06, 2013 @ 9:02 am
I wonder how many of the applications for the loans were straight up fraudulent?
Posted by Guest on Sep. 07, 2013 @ 8:39 am
They exaggerated incomes, and borrowed the down payments while claiming they were their own assets. Of course, they ay have been encouraged to lie by realtors and brokers looking for a deal.
But the main thing borrowers did wrong was simply not use common sense. If you make 50K a year then you should not borrow 500K to buy a home even if someone tells you that everything will be fine.
I suspect the average IQ of these borrowers was around the temperature of the average living room.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 07, 2013 @ 8:52 am
article goes on to say that it is still going through the political process and that lawsuits have been filed to stop it proceeding. So why is your headline so misleading, Joe? No homes have been seized as of this point in time.
I have no problem with Richmond buying these homes or mortgages in the free market, but should not be picking sides in legal disputes between lender and borrower. Each case is different and any policy that treats them all the same is disturbingly interventionist.
While eminent domain for this is overkill and almost certainly unconstitutional.
Posted by anon on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 10:16 am
A: Eminent domain allows the public to take private property for a broad definition of public use
B: Mortgage assets are considered private property owned by banks and non-bank financial entitites
sounds to me like eminent domain can be used to take mortgages...
Posted by MossyBuddha on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 10:41 am
invariably wrong when the issues raised are complex.
While eminent domain allows municipalities to compulsorily purchase assets, that has typically only been done for new development. It has never been mooted for purely ideological purposes, nor has it ever been done to favour one group of Americans over another.
And it's not a takeover of mortgage assets but a takeover of the underlying assets as well. and not for a fair market value but on the cheap. It's like a guy coming up to you in the street, pointing a gun at your head, and demanding that you sell him your iphone for a nickel.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 11:15 am
then home values would increase, which would solve this problem without all this class warfare rhetoric.
But of course that would be hard to do so, instead, a political gesture.
If you ever wondered what the Greens would be like if they ever had any power, this clueless initiative tells it in spades. Thank God I don't live in Richmond.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 11:33 am
Whatta mean, you won't give me a mortgage?
Posted by Confused Richmond Resident on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 11:42 am
Posted by Guest on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 11:50 am
Freddie and Fannie will not work with Richmond if this goes through, meaning that anyone wanting to buy a home in Richmond will be frozen out of the mortgage market, and/or will have to pay much higher rates than in neighboring towns.
Posted by anon on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 12:15 pm
... a lot of different efforts to stop this, and to encourage this, on both sides. To include every solitary aspect of this battle would require a novel. I included the full text of Wells Fargo's complaint embedded in the article, which outlines many of the issues talked about by the Fannie and Freddie arguments.
Additionally, we have a planned follow up piece that will look more at the opposition, from Fannie and Freddie to a local angle with Nat Bates, who plans to oppose eminent domain on a city level on September 10. Rest assured, there'll be more coverage of the opposition then.
Posted by Joe Fitzgerald on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 3:08 pm
The Fannie/Freddie angle is important because if they red-line Richmond, then the city will become a no-go area for home-buyers, with disastrous results. That old law of unintended consequences again.
That Bates guy who opposes this idea has discovered that the 600 loans have not been chosen at random but rather to profit the city by being highly selective and discriminatory. That, if true, is a crushing indictment of the idea.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 7:07 pm
for starters, I question whether this is a proper use of Eminent Domain. But put that aside for a second.
Richmond has made "offers" to homeowners that are, on average, over 25% LESS than what MRP had determined was the properties' fair market values. Isn't ED based on the presumption that the owner of the property that was going to be taken was to get Fair Market Value for it? So why the lowballing? Oh yeah, so that MRP would definitely get their piece of the pie, $4500 per transaction. This for an entity that has no skin in the game and is taking on no risk.
Has the City of Richmond gone to market to see if other entities would do this for less money than MRP? Not that I know of. Great business for MRP, I guess being a Rhodes Scholar has its privileges.
And oh yeah, lets not forget that, according the the Wall Street Journal, more than 2/3's of the properties Richmond is attempting to take by Eminent Domain are current on their payments!
This whole thing just sounds like a true clusterf**k, and the litigation costs are going to be abysmal for Richmond.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 1:25 pm
the city would not be buying the homes, which would remain on title to the underwater borrower. Rather they would be buying the loan. And that is another big problem, as eminent domain has never been used to buy purely financial assets and that alone is reason to believe that the courts will bounce this.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 1:37 pm
loans, mortgages, stocks, liens, contracts have all been condemned under Eminent Domain, and have been since before the Civil War.
The Oakland Raiders case from a few years ago had a laundry list of "things" that can be taken.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 2:28 pm
any and all assets in such an indiscriminate way, cherry-picking the good loans and of course ignoring the bad ones.
If Richmond really believes in this then why don't they buy only the very worst loans?
That is why the FHA have already banned Fannie and Freddie from dealing with these loans, which at a stroke makes owning a home in Richmond far too risky and expensive. Well done, Greens.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 2:36 pm
It's not fair to blame the Greens for this. The media likes to make a big deal out of the political party affiliation of our Mayor but this has nothing to do with her political party.
If you want to assess blame, it's the Richmond progressives who are leading the charge here.
Liberalism and progressiveism took a sharp turn to the left a few years back. Some of who used to be considered pretty liberal are now looked down on by the new progressives as if we were Karl Rove. It's this uberliberalism that's making liberals look bad.
And by the way, it's not as thought the few people on the Council really talk to the public at large before taking such actions. They even boast that they refuse to listen to those that disagree with them. You ought to see them up on the dais when the naysayers rise to speak. They talk amongst themselves, rarely even look at the speakers they disagree with and make a mockery of the fact that they swore to represent us all.
Posted by Don Gosney on Sep. 06, 2013 @ 11:30 am
You see this in the way moderates are hounded and stalked here, even though the views they express are liberal by national standards.
And of course communist nations have long restricted free speech as the model is too fragile to allow for any criticism.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 08, 2013 @ 1:25 pm
the solidly left editors of the SF Guardian seem to be (in my view foolishly) tolerating your pathetic right wing knee-jerk ass all the fuck over its blog pages, on a nearly constant basis
that pretty securely puts the lie to your bullshit comment
if anything, one of the left's biggest flaws is that it bends over backwards to tolerate idiot debate with right wing neanderthals like you, as if it is legitimate, when in reality (contrary to your repeated claims otherwise) the vast majority of people (even in the United States) do not think or operate via the juvenile thought process and cartoonish Ayn Rand style ideology that you embody
Posted by anonymous xXx on Sep. 08, 2013 @ 4:32 pm
you and the other intolerant lefties here want to end that, showing your true colors.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 08, 2013 @ 4:43 pm
Posted by anonymous xXx on Sep. 08, 2013 @ 5:02 pm
assets they requisition, otherwise they could buy all our assets at a discount, which is unconstitutional.
Richmond is trying to buy these assets on the cheap. And they are doing so thru a for-profit entity which has been funded by hedge funds. Strange bedfellows you've got there.
Posted by anon on Sep. 04, 2013 @ 2:44 pm
SO wrong for the Richmond mayor/city counsel to do this! This proposal will KILL the city's hope of ever getting better.
Where is all the money that these homeowners got from their 2nd mortgage, Spending over budget, Spending money they didn't have.
IF the real estate market had went the other way, would these homeowners GIVE their profits to the city of Richmond? Or do handouts and breaking contracts go only ONE WAY.
Socialism does not work. Communism does not work.
If you can't pay your bills, then move. Or get other jobs.
Simply Economics. Supply and Demand economics.
Save Richmond -- by electing other, smarter people!
Posted by StopRichmondPoliticians on Sep. 05, 2013 @ 12:30 am
One thing we hear so often in Richmond by the people who want to bring down the banks and businesses that operate in Richmond is that "we need it more than they do."
Sounds kind of like something from the old Robin Hood School of Economics.
I suppose that if I broke into one of their homes and walked off with their big flat screen TV I could always justify it by saying that I needed it more than they did.
Posted by Don Gosney on Sep. 06, 2013 @ 11:33 am
It is an abuse of government power.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 06, 2013 @ 1:59 pm
I happen to be a Richmond home owner who is not underwater. I own my home outright. Yet I am totally in favor of this plan. Why? Because my neighborhood is going downhillwith each foreclosure. Why not use ED to save the neighborhood? Is that not in the public interest? What solution do the banks propose? And to the person who said our Green Party mayor should focus on crime, not mortgage relief, you are not up to date on Richmond crime statistics. Since the Richmond Progressive Alliance has been winning elections, the crime rate has plummeted.
I would hate to see this ED plan scuttled by Wall Street...we have enough interference from Chevron money distorting Richmond's attempts to resolve our local problems. (And in case you're wondering where the council opposition to ED comes from, Nat Bates is bought and paid for by Chevron.)
Posted by Guest on Sep. 05, 2013 @ 3:04 pm
That's like me saying that the government should bail out Citi because I happen to hold shares in Citi. That's no basis for public policy, and certainly not for spending other peoples' money.
And how difficult do you think it will be to get a mortgage in Richmond if this goes through?
Posted by Guest on Sep. 05, 2013 @ 3:29 pm
I totally I agree. I am also a Richmond homeowner who is not underwater but whose neighborhood is going down due to foreclosures. We suffer as a community due to loss of resources, city government (due to decline in revenue) increased dumping, vagrancy in foreclosed properties and decreased home values... it is definitely a public good to stop the foreclosures in a smart way by focusing on those homeowners who are underwater but given a principle reduction could actually maintain a new reduced principle mortgage. Save those who can be saved, strengthen the whole community and the tax vase - return resources and services while stabilizing working families. It is a brilliant and necessary plan.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 05, 2013 @ 9:16 pm
Not on my dime and not on my watch.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 06, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
While VIOLENT crime may be down, we're still the #1 Auto Theft city in the nation!
And start talking to your neighbors about home and auto break-ins. [That is, of course, unless you live in the Point or the Marina where crime is not allowed.]
Since April of last year my car has been broken into three times and my home broken into and invaded twice. Don't you dare try to claim that crime is down in Richmond. It's gotten so bad that many of my neighbors don't even bother to report it because they know that our police services don't have the resources to even investigate.
Posted by Don Gosney on Sep. 06, 2013 @ 11:41 am
You will soon be underwater when no loans are available in Richmond and the value of your now above water house plummets!
Posted by Guest on Sep. 07, 2013 @ 8:42 am
goes through, and that will make it near impossible for anyone to borrow or re-finance in Richmond.
The law of unintended consequences strikes the naive. Again.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 07, 2013 @ 8:55 am
The replies blaming the suckers (homeowners) and defending the banks feel like they must have be written by bank employees or whatever. The banks were criminal; they got bailed out with no penalty. Richmond should prevail with their solution!
Posted by Col on Sep. 05, 2013 @ 3:20 pm
Americans who understood and accepted the need for the banks to be bailed out?
Or that many of these borrowers were indeed dumb?
Posted by Guest on Sep. 05, 2013 @ 3:30 pm
As as 26+ year Richmond homeowner who's far from underwater, I'm glad Richmond is doing this. I'm just amazed how many people side with the banks. Power to the People!
Posted by Guest on Sep. 05, 2013 @ 5:23 pm
It's about those of us who make sacrifices to pay our mortgages in full every month being ignored while those who took out excessive loans get a bailout.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 05, 2013 @ 6:51 pm
Posted by Guest III on Sep. 05, 2013 @ 9:03 pm
Exactly the opposite of what should happen.
Posted by Guest on Sep. 06, 2013 @ 2:01 pm
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Gender: Male
Years in Practice: 36 Years
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Medical School: A.T. Still University of Health Sciences/ Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine
Graduation Date: 1978
Hospital Affiliations: Hoboken University Medical Center, Clara Maass Medical Center, Saint Marys Hospital
Specialties: Ophthalmology
*This physician has multiple office locations. See Appointments for details.
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