Advocacy Groups Move the Homeless into Vacant Foreclosures
With a chronic shortage of affordable housing in many cities and an abundance of foreclosed properties, advocacy groups for the homeless in some cities have been quietly moving homeless people into vacant, foreclosed homes, often the ones they previously lived in. Some groups operate as a kind of modern-day underground railroad, according to one advocate quoted in a New York Times story, while other groups do their work openly, sometimes with the support of neighbors in low income neighborhoods who are tired of seeing vacant homes become derelict, vandalized and increasingly unkempt. Read more »
