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Daily Real Estate News | March 18, 2008
Foreclosed Homes Attract Homeless
Homeless people in cities all across the country are moving into empty, foreclosed homes.
"Many homeless people see the foreclosure crisis as an opportunity to find low-cost housing with some privacy," Brian Davis, director of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, wrote in a summary of the latest census of homeless sleeping outside in downtown Cleveland.
East of San Francisco, a man was arrested in November on a code violation while living without water service in a vacant home in Manteca, Calif., which has been hit hard by the foreclosure crisis.
In Cape Coral, Fla., a man arrested in September in a foreclosed home said he had been living there since helping a friend move out weeks earlier.
In Philadelphia, the risk is too great to send case workers into vacant homes to check for homeless needing help, says Ed Speedling, community liaison with Project H.O.M.E. "We're very, very wary of going inside. There's danger. I mean, if the floor caves in. There's potential danger.”
Source: The Associated Press, Thomas J. Sheeran (02/17/08)
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