One in every 519 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing in April. Foreclosure filings increased from a year earlier in all but eight states.You can take your family to live in discarded shipping containers!
Because of the Republican policies, 99% of us are the have-nots:
(CBS) There have always been "haves" and "have-nots" in the United States, but over the past three decades, the gap between them has gotten a lot wider, statistics from congressional numbers crunchers show.
According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, income for the bottom half of American households rose six percent since 1979 but, through 2005, the income of the top one percent skyrocketed - by 228 percent.
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Followed the link to the container homes, and I'm torn. On one hand, its quite clear there is a glut of homes.
On the other hand, homes that are stacked like that could be much more efficient energy wise than McMansions.
I agree, Map. It's wonderful to recycle, but would these homes be really functional and energy efficient? If so, have at it!
But, some way or another, overbuilding has to stop, the clear-cutting of forests needs to be reduced, the loss of good farmlands to tract homes needs to end...
Maybe these foreclosures will help people focus on rebuilding the inner cities and neglected areas, although I won't hold my breath.
It would be nice if some humane thing came out of this economic disaster....
loss of farmland to tract homes... i'm with you on that one.
i'm also with you on rebuilding the inner cities, but what i've been noticing along that line is the regetrification of the inner cities, which is latin for fix it up enough so that poor people can no longer afford to live there.
You're right. I've heard the pattern is this. Poor people move to the outskirts of town. Artists follow. Art culture begins to make area exciting and cutting edge. Higher income people move to be near center of coolness. Rent goes up. Rich people move in. Poor people move to outskirts of town. Artists follow....
i've seen something like that happen too.
right now, in my city, the artists have moved into [mostly] downtown, the rich have followed them, and the poor moved a bit further out. a very few artists are now starting to spread out a bit from downtown.
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