Homes with No People, People with No Homes

Common Dreams, AP by Tamara Lush | Dec. 8, 2008 (News Report)

he is unlike any real estate agent you've ever met. He is unshaven, drives a beat-up car and wears grungy cut-off sweat pants. He also breaks into the homes he shows. And his clients don't have a dime for a down payment.

Rameau is an activist who has been executing a bailout plan of his own around Miami's empty streets: He is helping homeless people illegally move into foreclosed homes.

"We're matching homeless people with people-less ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Business, Living
Topics: Poverty, Law Enforcement, U.S. Economy, Housing
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Dec 9, 2008 - 2:05 AM PST
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review), Steve Kearney (review), Jan Brown (review), Mindy Phypers (review), Patricia Blochowiak (review), Tanya J. Maurer (review), Kenneth Sibbett (review)
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Dec 9, 2008 - 2:05 AM PST

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Dwight Rousu
4.5
 by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 9, 2008

The idea of breaking into abandoned homes to house the homeless has a quixotic charm to it.

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Mindy Phypers
4.4
 by Mindy Phypers - Dec. 10, 2008
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Tanya J. Maurer
4.4
 by Tanya J. Maurer - Dec. 13, 2008

It shows a Robin Hood in the neighborhood.

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Patricia Blochowiak
3.9
 by Patricia Blochowiak - Dec. 10, 2008

I live in an area with lots of vacant, boarded-up houses, and I plan to forward this story widely.

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Kenneth Sibbett
4.8
 by Kenneth Sibbett - Dec. 12, 2008

The author wrote a great story about a great guy. The Information on Miami's homeless and mortgage problems was priceless.

Ms. Lush must of had to look far and wide to find a feel good story in this mortgage mess the resent administration has gotten us into.

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Jan Brown
4.2
 by Jan Brown - Dec. 13, 2008

This is informative journalism. I had no idea that a home in a Miami neighborhood would be sold for such an exhorbitant price. No wonder so many are homeless.

Better to have a home occupied and maintained than to leave it to the ravishes of criminals.

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Steve Kearney
4.4
 by Steve Kearney - Dec. 10, 2008
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