Absolute statist idiots: 'Demolishing derelict homes is foreclosure prevention'

States divert foreclosure prevention money to demolitions

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Absolute statist idiots: 'Demolishing derelict homes is foreclosure prevention' Detroit%20demo%20house1

The Treasury Department has changed the rules on the Hardest Hit Fund, a program meant to help people hit by the housing crisis stay in their homes, allowing states to use some money from the $7.6 billion foreclosure prevention program to demolish homes instead.

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Michigan and Ohio have changed their contracts with the Treasury Department so they can use foreclosure prevention funds for home demolition. Michigan has diverted a $100 million into demolition. That’s a fifth of its money from the Hardest Hit program, part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. The money will be used to tear down 7,000 vacant homes.

“Here we were assisting homeowners to stay in their homes, but then, many of these communities had so many blighted properties that homeowners would throw their arms up and say, ‘I’m never gonna get value out of this house, why am I doing this?’” says Mary Townley, director of homeownership at the Michigan State Housing Development Authority.

Michigan officials say blight leads to abandonment. It invites crime and drives down property values in neighborhoods where the 13,000 homeowners they’ve already helped are trying to hold on. They say demolishing derelict homes is foreclosure prevention.

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Absolute statist idiots: 'Demolishing derelict homes is foreclosure prevention'

Absolute statist idiots: 'Demolishing derelict homes is foreclosure prevention'

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