Paul Betka this the truth. Majority of America doesn’t realize Detroit is the first not the last. Detroit is slowly seeing a comeback while Chicago is slowly meeting its demise. Lived in Chicago 35 years. Owned a successful business there. Moved it all to the Detroit. So Chicago’s underwater mortgages are actually the highest in the country. I think it’s 30% or higher of underwater mortgages. The sky rocketing taxes and property costs middle class can’t afford. The mega rich alone cannot cover all the costs to operate a city. The city sold all public parking spots to a hedge fund. Parking costs have gone up like 1000% in some areas this last decade. The thing that’s going to nail the coffin is the pension problem. Look into that scam and all the money they stole. Basically they used pension money to buy skyscrapers then sold them all at massive lost. Most likely to themselves or one of they’re buddies and covered it in the shell. Writing been on the wall in these democratic strongholds. At this point when these cities go completely bust and everyone broke. I can’t even feel bad. I’ll be sitting back laughing. Writing been on the wall
"nobody" owns any of these houses, and the homeless problem is getting worse and worse. it almost seems like something on purpose is going on. i wonder what the endgame is.
You can't just give a house to a homeless person to solve the issue. How did they become homeless to start. Not enough money then how do they maintain a house let alone payments. Drug or mental problem again they can't maintain a healthy environment let alone a house. You have to solve why they are homeless first.
@@oldkittykiyru they're homeless because they don't have places to live. you're talking to someone who just needed to be given a place to live to get her life back together. i'm living proof that just giving homeless people places to live works. i don't have drug problems or mental health issues driving me out into the streets, and neither do a lot of the people out there. i even had an income, just like a lot of them. the problem is that people who don't live in my community own all the rental properties and set the move-in costs so astronomically high that nobody whose income restricts them to 4 or 5 hundred dollars in rent can afford a home at that rent because the initial cost is 2500 or 3000 dollars. nobody living on a disability check can save that up and still keep themselves alive, even though they _could_ afford the rent were they allowed to just move in without having to pay some millionaire half a state away 3000 dollars. homelessness is not a problem caused by the homeless. it's a problem caused by the people who insist on owning empty homes and keeping them impossible to rent for an entire class of people.
@@oldkittykiyru ... and by the way, it's entitled people who have no sense of what anything is worth who trash rental properties, not homeless people who are given a chance to start over by being given a place to live. it's entitled brats whose mommies and daddies pay their rent and have no sense of what their lives would be like without their golden little safety net who don't care what they do to where they live. i have no idea why the popular misconception is to blame people who _don't_ have homes for the damage done to homes by people who _do._ that makes zero sense to me.
We are not Detroit, Chicago is a beautiful city, The problem is that no one wants to move to a neighborhood where you get shot at and robbed every day. I always said that there is so much valuable property on the south side going to waste. Like I said though, there is too much crime, drugs and gangs in those communities and its so bad that people are moving to the suburbs. Clean up the streets first.
This has been the case for more than fifty years. I knew a fellow that use to go through abandoned buildings in Chicago to pick up junk that he could resell. I went junk hunting with him a few times in the 1970's and 1980's when I was a young man and he was an old man.
Here in Toledo, in the 90's, Carty Finkbiener made an announcement that the city wanted to buy up all of the vacant properties throughout Toledo, especially those in the West Historical District (We call it the Old West End). He basically got the homeowners to come out from under the rocks they were hiding in by offering them amnesty on the taxes they owe. All they had to do was hand it over to the city, sign on the line, walk away. For the most part, it worked well. Lots of beautiful historical homes became available. Then the city turned around and sold those homes for $1, plus the back taxes. You could get a 7-10 bedroom house for $4k. I know a friend who went in with other friends and took advantage of this program. The catch was, they had to bring that property up to living standards within a set amount of time. There are still vacant houses, and Toledo wanted to bring the program back but then we had the housing crisis in '08. But that first program was very successful. About 60% of the houses bought back by the city were bought and refurbished. Some people rent them out to college kids and big families, some people still live in them. Heck, I don't live in a historical house, but the house I live in was bought by my landlord during this program, and he turned it into a duplex. He paid $2,500 for it total, and put about 10k into it. Now he rents it and all debts are paid and he gets a nice return, and we have a home.
Do you expect them to put thousands of dollars into the homes for some homeless guy to smoke crack in there? They could fix it up, but the ghetto people will just not appreciate it and mess it up. Go to any all black neighborhood in any City and you will find the same thing. They curse what they touch usually
@@spork1572 Ever watch the "fixer upper" type shows on HGTV or DIY? They take structures that are practically falling down and turn them into gold. The key to what they do though, is that they are judicious in choosing the structures based not on location alone, but of the local human capital calculation that has been made behind the scenes at the real estate companies. Never say those houses cannot be saved based on the condition alone, but rather on "why fix a house that will just be burned down by the locals?"
Why so much red tape and waiting? Post a sign in front of the house and in the newspaper saying the house will be sold for back property taxes due on a certain date. Give the current owners (whoever they are) 30 days to respond, and if they don't then sell the damn thing! Make the new owners sign an agreement with a stipulation that the property must be renovated to a degree that is equal to, or better than the nicer homes in the neighborhood. Then give the new owners 1 year to make the renovations or they lose the home and all money invested! We need to get rid of all these laws that protect absent owners and corporations that buy up these houses and then sits on them til they rot!
It’s simple, if the house is abandoned then the city should take possession and fix it or tear it down. In our City they have 6 months to do something about their abandoned property or the City steps in!!!
If you have to pay a tax on something that is "yours" then it is not really yours. Your maintaining it paying royalties to people who misuse the funds and OWN your stuff.
They cloud the titles on these homes because they want to escape the taxes and demo fees that need to be paid. The city ends up inheriting these costs. I think it would be better to allow people to donate their property to the city when they no longer want to expense of owning it in the same manner that you can drop off an unwanted child at the fire department with out penalty. The city could then take over the responsibility of the property without a lengthy and costly procedure.
No jobs high cost of living equals depression. Cities = complete destruction we have also way to many government employees and elected officials. Got to end the city mentality.
I know it's easy to disparage an entire community, as opposed to justly looking at the many tangled facts and making individual judgements, which is hard to do and takes time. This way helps to keep the respectful tone necessary to converse about the topic though. There may even be 10s of 1000s of blighted houses around the city, that have similar "people" and bereaucracy issues, but each case is still different no? Sometimes, the humans who rent out to other humans in certain neighborhoods, know that they can get away with treating renters badly in poorer areas. Also, sometimes it is true that some renters are bad rentees. The population is in the millions, so while 10s of 1000s around the city is significant and very worrisome, especially to those who are forced to live in particular communities, we should not be so idiotic as to use such a blanketed way of describing people. Peace and Love.
The 2008 housing crisis and stock market meltdown was caused by just that thing. Sick thing of it was, it was mostly overseas banks that were buying the properties sight unseen. Deutsche Bank at one point owned 50% of all housing in East Cleveland.
First, it is not "all across Chicago". There are plenty of neighborhoods where this does not, cannot happen at all, because the real estate prices are sky high. They correct themselves later, mentioning "distressed" neighborhoods. Second, their example is Englewood, which is one of the highest crime neighborhoods in the entire United States. It has areas along Garfield Blvd. and 63rd St. that have been empty lots since the King assassination riots of 1969. Third, any of the families of any means who lived their split for the southwest suburbs years ago, leaving only the poorest, most uneducated, unemployable and gang ridden families to still occupy it. Michelle Obama was on the news a few weeks ago, talking about how white people fled the city to the suburbs. "Y'all were running from us" she tells white people, while nice and cozy in her Martha's Vineyard mansion. Look who's doing the running now.
Renters will trash where they live and leave all the costs on the landlords. That not only makes it tough on those of us who rent and take care of our places, but creates these situations. People seem to not care about where they live anymore. Wouldn't it be nice if people in need could live in these homes and take care of them?
Absolutely correct! They don’t want to pay rent but after they destroy it, yet they’re asking the landlord to fix it but with what money 💴? Not all landlords are rich but renters think they are! It boggles my mind! Most landlords only have 1 property and their residence and that’s it!
@Masterr Laster - that could be, she needed to take pictures of before and after renovation also invoices on what was done, she may have that info. that was never mentioned, she needs documentation to prove her claim
The IRS doesn't deal with individual homeowners. It's the city & county that deals with property taxes from homeowners. I own properties in NYS since 2005, I've never got anything from the IRS regarding property taxes.
@apolo kabali No I just look at the party thats been in charge for that long of time and figure out how many have been charged with wrong doings and how much money they have spent on them self's , its not a Democrat or republican thing its a crook thing and the people of Chicago have been getting screwed for years... don't listen to what they say watch what they do...
God I feel for him. I know what its like seeing your childhood home crumbling down. My grandparents house was sold to a couple who lets it decay although they live there with a family and everything. It rips your soul open. :'( And to know my old grandfather of 82 could keep a home in better shape than a young healthy couple. We are in the end times where mans heart has grown cold.
If they cared they would give them away free under contract that its refinished in 3 years. Make business ownership easy and encourage people to keep it from crumbling. It's stupid green, mismanagement and lack of creativity. We have 20% of people homeless in this country and houses in ruins.
Interesting. The contact numbers and addresses led to 'other' addresses and no one worked there, that seems to be problem number 1. The city is not gonna chase you, they send to last recorded address and leave it at that. If this current home owner wants the property next to his house HE should have first dibs on it and pay a fraction of the tax bill so he can demolish or fix it up (its been written off as uncollected debit by now) It was so close to his I'm sure he would like a bigger yard / more space.
Makes me wonder if the underlying issue was the high tax rates and crime (murder) rates in Chicago that caused people to flee Chicago (and other parts of IL) for a better life. If they couldn't sell them, they just abandoned them.
Starting in 2005 the City of Pittsburgh at the insistence of then Mayor Bob O'Connor began demolishing the abandoned houses that blighted it's north side. The north side is a thousand times better for it.
It's not the houses its' alot to do with the neighborhood. In some Chicago neighborhoods old houses are being renovated for hundred of thousand dollars. Why?
Insane. Wait till the big money moves in and gentrifies the neighborhoods. Come take a look at Harlem, especially Sugar Hill around 145th Street. Multi-million dollar houses up and down every street, plus new 5-story condos. These people don't realize that this architecture stands out as unique. So yeah, just come to Harlem. If thirty NFL or NBA players bought three fewer suits/year, Chicago's inner city could be turned around quick. Kids could learn trades and be set up for later in life. Check this out, in a 4-on-4 basketball tournament with twelve teams, 48 kids expend more energy than is required to renovate an abandoned house *by hand.* No amount of logic will get people to see the big picture. A friend used to tell me about the community programs organized by the original *Black Panthers,* but these days people are too dumbed down to think in big terms.
TheRisky9 there is no cost on cultural integrity and preservation But explaining that to certain people without culture is like trying to explain the cultural significance of historic preservation to a dried rat shit on a dirty paper plate
Camden NJ, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleveland, Youngstown, Toledo, Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Gary IN, parts of Chicago, East St Louis, St Louis, Memphis => Rust Belt dispair.
We can't just blame a random entrepreneur who lived in the city just because she is famous and wealthy, only to absolve ourselves of any responsibility. We aren't entitled to her money. If she is able to + wants to help out of the kindness of her mind, fine, but to try to guilt trip her is _. This is capitalism and bureaucracy at work, we have to think of the total system in order to change things imho.
there would be people happy to have a place to live and fix up. But the city demands all the back taxes fines penalties and interest be paid amounting to thousands. Then the person that once owned it can walk back in and take it from you. Change the laws Chicago. Give the person that takes the property over a clean slate and quit trying to nickle and dime them to death. Fix your services if required. Make an effort to welcome people instead of grafting them. Only then when you will see your rural city come to life again. Draw in those tax dollars.
basspig OK thanks, yeah you’re right obviously... I was just so fixated on how people can just fucking destroy buildings that they’re supposed to be living in and enjoying and appreciating Makes me sad, it’s been my lifelong dream to restore an old building and enjoy it
No problem. Tax only owner's non-residing homes. Very High. If they don't pay taxes on these homes - lose home immediately to immediate auction. Instantly, the neighborhood changes. Government needs to exterminate all local officials that don't enact this law immediately.
The real question is where did the people move to ??? I can tell you more than the bulk of them moved to Atlanta. To pick up exactly where they left off at. As far as crime and of course the way they vote. And yes I’m black.
This is done so that everyone and governments can say Black's don't take care of their communities or property, then the land is sold for pennies, BLACK homeowner's are forced out and the area is then rebuilt and sold at higher prices.
Public Housing projects in NYC were designed to last 40 years. The crazies that moved in destroyed them in 20 years. It was cheaper to raze them and replace than it was to repair. Good luck! The Jungle folfks moved in, then moved out. Mother Nature is restoring the Jungle with trees and branches. History repeats.
That is called Jewish lightning, a.k.a. ARSON. Do that, and the insurance company lawyers will giggle uncontrollably as you are led off to Anal University. I know you think it sounds funny, but ask anyone who has gone up for that - it's no joke.
They find Judith, she says it’s in a trust but doesn’t want to disclose who the owner is due to back taxes then says where do I sign to donate the house... so she owns the house?!
Why are people leaving? Probably because they see the writing on the wall. Property tax increases have turned what might have been stable middle class neighborhoods into a RE traps. Homeowners that based retirement on funds recuperated from the sale of their 'nest egg' now are locked in to these deteriorating cities with no hope of recovery. Where is the turning point? At what point will the cost of living outweigh income and those that could leave left. It is a snowballing effect very visible in places like Chicago: Irvington, NJ and Cleveland. The result: urban blight and crime. More and more of the country is falling victim to blight. The media ignores it preferring to reach stardom by chasing the scandal de jour.
You never really own anything in this country
Our cities are either crumbling or booming to the point people can’t afford to live in those cities. Rural areas are hurting too.
True.
Homeless people and empty homes. Nobody sees a solution? Looking more like Detroit every day.
Homeless people would just trash everything.
I was thinking Detroit aswell!
Every major DEMOCRATIC run City. Leave Detroit out of it.
Your town's a probably a shit hole too. And demo run into the ground ...
Horrible
Paul Betka this the truth. Majority of America doesn’t realize Detroit is the first not the last. Detroit is slowly seeing a comeback while Chicago is slowly meeting its demise.
Lived in Chicago 35 years. Owned a successful business there. Moved it all to the Detroit.
So Chicago’s underwater mortgages are actually the highest in the country. I think it’s 30% or higher of underwater mortgages.
The sky rocketing taxes and property costs middle class can’t afford. The mega rich alone cannot cover all the costs to operate a city.
The city sold all public parking spots to a hedge fund. Parking costs have gone up like 1000% in some areas this last decade.
The thing that’s going to nail the coffin is the pension problem. Look into that scam and all the money they stole. Basically they used pension money to buy skyscrapers then sold them all at massive lost. Most likely to themselves or one of they’re buddies and covered it in the shell.
Writing been on the wall in these democratic strongholds. At this point when these cities go completely bust and everyone broke. I can’t even feel bad. I’ll be sitting back laughing. Writing been on the wall
"nobody" owns any of these houses, and the homeless problem is getting worse and worse. it almost seems like something on purpose is going on. i wonder what the endgame is.
You can't just give a house to a homeless person to solve the issue. How did they become homeless to start. Not enough money then how do they maintain a house let alone payments. Drug or mental problem again they can't maintain a healthy environment let alone a house. You have to solve why they are homeless first.
zEropoint68 slavery
@@oldkittykiyru they're homeless because they don't have places to live. you're talking to someone who just needed to be given a place to live to get her life back together. i'm living proof that just giving homeless people places to live works. i don't have drug problems or mental health issues driving me out into the streets, and neither do a lot of the people out there. i even had an income, just like a lot of them. the problem is that people who don't live in my community own all the rental properties and set the move-in costs so astronomically high that nobody whose income restricts them to 4 or 5 hundred dollars in rent can afford a home at that rent because the initial cost is 2500 or 3000 dollars. nobody living on a disability check can save that up and still keep themselves alive, even though they _could_ afford the rent were they allowed to just move in without having to pay some millionaire half a state away 3000 dollars.
homelessness is not a problem caused by the homeless. it's a problem caused by the people who insist on owning empty homes and keeping them impossible to rent for an entire class of people.
@@oldkittykiyru ... and by the way, it's entitled people who have no sense of what anything is worth who trash rental properties, not homeless people who are given a chance to start over by being given a place to live. it's entitled brats whose mommies and daddies pay their rent and have no sense of what their lives would be like without their golden little safety net who don't care what they do to where they live. i have no idea why the popular misconception is to blame people who _don't_ have homes for the damage done to homes by people who _do._ that makes zero sense to me.
tax people and property enough and nobody can do anything
If something happens to rejuvenate the neighborhood they'll just call it gentrification and complain about that instead.
Word life!
If the politicians were as concerned with the citizens as they are about their sanctuary city status… Maybe this wouldn’t be such a problem
This sort of thing is nation wide. I live in NE Ohio, and I see stories like this on the news all the time. Sad but true.
Yes. I lost a bunch in the housing crash of '08 that devastated the housing market in Cleveland.
Not out West it's the opposite problem. You can't find a decent home for under 400k. And those are ghetto homes
Chicago/Cook county has some of the highest property taxes in the nation. Who wants to stick around for that?
Exactly.
@jazier hammoed legalized corruption that is
I got my home from the land bank and I lived in it for 11 years now
Give the owner a certain amount of time and if they don’t show up give it to a charity or homeless working person.
This is why people like us will never be politicians
I’m in tears,, my old neighborhood too. 57th Carpenter. So many vacant lots, and dilapidated buildings.Dang Shame !
You've seen nothing until u came to South Chicago, plenty vacant lots and there's a whole 2 blocks with absolutely nothing there
We are not Detroit, Chicago is a beautiful city, The problem is that no one wants to move to a neighborhood where you get shot at and robbed every day. I always said that there is so much valuable property on the south side going to waste. Like I said though, there is too much crime, drugs and gangs in those communities and its so bad that people are moving to the suburbs. Clean up the streets first.
They are leaving because of the deaths and crimes. I assume
This has been the case for more than fifty years. I knew a fellow that use to go through abandoned buildings in Chicago to pick up junk that he could resell. I went junk hunting with him a few times in the 1970's and 1980's when I was a young man and he was an old man.
Here in Toledo, in the 90's, Carty Finkbiener made an announcement that the city wanted to buy up all of the vacant properties throughout Toledo, especially those in the West Historical District (We call it the Old West End). He basically got the homeowners to come out from under the rocks they were hiding in by offering them amnesty on the taxes they owe. All they had to do was hand it over to the city, sign on the line, walk away. For the most part, it worked well. Lots of beautiful historical homes became available. Then the city turned around and sold those homes for $1, plus the back taxes. You could get a 7-10 bedroom house for $4k. I know a friend who went in with other friends and took advantage of this program. The catch was, they had to bring that property up to living standards within a set amount of time. There are still vacant houses, and Toledo wanted to bring the program back but then we had the housing crisis in '08. But that first program was very successful. About 60% of the houses bought back by the city were bought and refurbished. Some people rent them out to college kids and big families, some people still live in them. Heck, I don't live in a historical house, but the house I live in was bought by my landlord during this program, and he turned it into a duplex. He paid $2,500 for it total, and put about 10k into it. Now he rents it and all debts are paid and he gets a nice return, and we have a home.
the smart ones got the golden ticket for sure imagine buying a huge property for virtually no money awesome dela
It's happening all over America. Empty houses rotting down with homeless people everywhere you go.
Do you expect them to put thousands of dollars into the homes for some homeless guy to smoke crack in there? They could fix it up, but the ghetto people will just not appreciate it and mess it up. Go to any all black neighborhood in any City and you will find the same thing. They curse what they touch usually
@@mr.e1220 I pray you find peace & acceptance of all life.
They tax the heck out of us in Illinois. Will be moving.
Lots of houses for the homeless,,
They aren't habitable
@@spork1572 Ever watch the "fixer upper" type shows on HGTV or DIY? They take structures that are practically falling down and turn them into gold. The key to what they do though, is that they are judicious in choosing the structures based not on location alone, but of the local human capital calculation that has been made behind the scenes at the real estate companies. Never say those houses cannot be saved based on the condition alone, but rather on "why fix a house that will just be burned down by the locals?"
Bethlehem Eisenhour and how do you think they’re going to treat the buildings after they move in
@@ladyboywonder9139 You worry too much, so much, you wouldn't give a house.
Why so much red tape and waiting? Post a sign in front of the house and in the newspaper saying the house will be sold for back property taxes due on a certain date. Give the current owners (whoever they are) 30 days to respond, and if they don't then sell the damn thing! Make the new owners sign an agreement with a stipulation that the property must be renovated to a degree that is equal to, or better than the nicer homes in the neighborhood. Then give the new owners 1 year to make the renovations or they lose the home and all money invested! We need to get rid of all these laws that protect absent owners and corporations that buy up these houses and then sits on them til they rot!
It’s simple, if the house is abandoned then the city should take possession and fix it or tear it down. In our City they have 6 months to do something about their abandoned property or the City steps in!!!
If you have to pay a tax on something that is "yours" then it is not really yours. Your maintaining it paying royalties to people who misuse the funds and OWN your stuff.
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It's almost 2020, can we have an update on this?
The city tore down the house next to him.
They cloud the titles on these homes because they want to escape the taxes and demo fees that need to be paid. The city ends up inheriting these costs. I think it would be better to allow people to donate their property to the city when they no longer want to expense of owning it in the same manner that you can drop off an unwanted child at the fire department with out penalty. The city could then take over the responsibility of the property without a lengthy and costly procedure.
No jobs high cost of living equals depression. Cities = complete destruction we have also way to many government employees and elected officials. Got to end the city mentality.
Very good reporting, facts, no bbus, good job
Criminal renters are a plague. They trash good properties. That should be a criminal offense.
Owner said it. Renovated twice and renters trashed it. How many times can you serve a community of idiots before you give up?
I know it's easy to disparage an entire community, as opposed to justly looking at the many tangled facts and making individual judgements, which is hard to do and takes time. This way helps to keep the respectful tone necessary to converse about the topic though. There may even be 10s of 1000s of blighted houses around the city, that have similar "people" and bereaucracy issues, but each case is still different no? Sometimes, the humans who rent out to other humans in certain neighborhoods, know that they can get away with treating renters badly in poorer areas. Also, sometimes it is true that some renters are bad rentees. The population is in the millions, so while 10s of 1000s around the city is significant and very worrisome, especially to those who are forced to live in particular communities, we should not be so idiotic as to use such a blanketed way of describing people. Peace and Love.
it been rolled up into a derivative back mortgage 50 times by now.
no shakedown artist hoa
The 2008 housing crisis and stock market meltdown was caused by just that thing. Sick thing of it was, it was mostly overseas banks that were buying the properties sight unseen. Deutsche Bank at one point owned 50% of all housing in East Cleveland.
First, it is not "all across Chicago". There are plenty of neighborhoods where this does not, cannot happen at all, because the real estate prices are sky high. They correct themselves later, mentioning "distressed" neighborhoods. Second, their example is Englewood, which is one of the highest crime neighborhoods in the entire United States. It has areas along Garfield Blvd. and 63rd St. that have been empty lots since the King assassination riots of 1969. Third, any of the families of any means who lived their split for the southwest suburbs years ago, leaving only the poorest, most uneducated, unemployable and gang ridden families to still occupy it. Michelle Obama was on the news a few weeks ago, talking about how white people fled the city to the suburbs. "Y'all were running from us" she tells white people, while nice and cozy in her Martha's Vineyard mansion. Look who's doing the running now.
Wow - you are so missing the point.
@eelnoops5217 , and? So I'm right in my examples but still not right by the point you perceive?
This is what _REAL_ socialism looks like.
When you step into the PUBLIC library- this is what real socialism look like!
And what you see - is what real CAPITALISM look like!!!!
TRYING TO MAKE BLACK PEOPLE LOOK SYMPATHETIC WHEN THEY THE ONES FUCKING THEIR OWN SHIT UP.
America is capitalist. How does socialism apply?
Correct, look at the mayor there. Scary!
No socialism looks exactly like the failed public housing Chicago had to tear down.
I would love to come over there and help people fix up those homes
Renters will trash where they live and leave all the costs on the landlords. That not only makes it tough on those of us who rent and take care of our places, but creates these situations. People seem to not care about where they live anymore. Wouldn't it be nice if people in need could live in these homes and take care of them?
Absolutely correct! They don’t want to pay rent but after they destroy it, yet they’re asking the landlord to fix it but with what money 💴? Not all landlords are rich but renters think they are! It boggles my mind! Most landlords only have 1 property and their residence and that’s it!
the woman Judith said she renovated the home twice and renters trashed it
yeah, I wonder what her definition of renovate is.
She's lying.
@Masterr Laster - that could be, she needed to take pictures of before and after renovation also invoices on what was done, she may have that info. that was never mentioned, she needs documentation to prove her claim
olives peppers ..thank then as being anti rentier by making tents illegal to sell rat and termite infestations..
Democrats are scum of the earth
Tax evasion? Why wouldn't the IRS be after the owner?
The IRS doesn't deal with individual homeowners. It's the city & county that deals with property taxes from homeowners. I own properties in NYS since 2005, I've never got anything from the IRS regarding property taxes.
Al Morrison a few years ago some guy crashed his head plane into a IRS office on purpose he really hated them
5:50 "We will never see the fruits of our efforts, they're gone". It's planned that way
Sad. Sad. Sad. To see these Abundant Homes go to waste
Inequality at its best, then we go to others countries and try to tell them how to live!!
tropical movement as the old saying goes charity begins at home
The west coast has massive homelessness, the upper midwest has abandoned houses. What an insanity.
So money is more important in this world than people 😞 so sad. So many people are homeless.
Not in Baltimore, there is a tax sale after the first year of back taxes.
City should take all those properties, demolished and selling the lots to people to build new houses...
@chief tp bc those area are Fuck up but if those properties are in the market maybe will be business opportunities... But you have a valid point.
Democrats have been in charge of this city from 1932 ...
That's about when they finished building the better old homes in the city.
@apolo kabali No I just look at the party thats been in charge for that long of time and figure out how many have been charged with wrong doings and how much money they have spent on them self's , its not a Democrat or republican thing its a crook thing and the people of Chicago have been getting screwed for years... don't listen to what they say watch what they do...
@@johnlockesghost5592 The entirety of the Deep South. Imagine making a comment this fucking stupid. Have some shame.
God I feel for him. I know what its like seeing your childhood home crumbling down. My grandparents house was sold to a couple who lets it decay although they live there with a family and everything. It rips your soul open. :'( And to know my old grandfather of 82 could keep a home in better shape than a young healthy couple. We are in the end times where mans heart has grown cold.
Get a life dude!
When you sell a home it’s no longer yours. Furthermore whatever someone does with their home is their business.
If they cared they would give them away free under contract that its refinished in 3 years. Make business ownership easy and encourage people to keep it from crumbling. It's stupid green, mismanagement and lack of creativity. We have 20% of people homeless in this country and houses in ruins.
not too many people looking at moving to the south side of Chicago
in this ice age it will freeze for awhile and there won't be anyone living there.
So sad...some of these buildings look like they used to be so beautiful!
The city ought to force those home owners to stay in the city and pay their taxes !
He forgot to say people got shot here on this street.
Interesting. The contact numbers and addresses led to 'other' addresses and no one worked there, that seems to be problem number 1. The city is not gonna chase you, they send to last recorded address and leave it at that. If this current home owner wants the property next to his house HE should have first dibs on it and pay a fraction of the tax bill so he can demolish or fix it up (its been written off as uncollected debit by now) It was so close to his I'm sure he would like a bigger yard / more space.
WOW North Minneapolis is not even 1/4 this bad!!!
Makes me wonder if the underlying issue was the high tax rates and crime (murder) rates in Chicago that caused people to flee Chicago (and other parts of IL) for a better life. If they couldn't sell them, they just abandoned them.
All those churches in Chicago and NO INVESTMENT?!
Sadly any community that that is of a majority black will end up like this....change my mind.
No. ANY community infested with drugs and/or a high unemployment rate will end up like this. Racist much?
True, Chinatown and the Mexican hoods also in the south side of Chicago look NOTHING like that lmao
Like Detroit. No one knows 😱
Who -what - where😭 O R what department owns it. City or tax
Or even state.
And Newark, NJ is like that!
Starting in 2005 the City of Pittsburgh at the insistence of then Mayor Bob O'Connor began demolishing the abandoned houses that blighted it's north side. The north side is a thousand times better for it.
San Francisco soon will join Chicago in having hundreds of abandoned houses.
I suspect you're right. And there will be more cities.
only if a major earthquake destroys the city. The situation in San Francisco is different from what is going on in Chicago.
Imperial0666 Pretty sure that they’re experiencing a major earthquake right now but without the physical damage.
@@Vixinaful - It is more cities
The Bay area is full of empty houses. Foreign investors come over and buy them and never occupy.
It's not the houses its' alot to do with the neighborhood. In some Chicago neighborhoods old houses are being renovated for hundred of thousand dollars. Why?
What do they do with the houses
Nice 👍
Insane. Wait till the big money moves in and gentrifies the neighborhoods. Come take a look at Harlem, especially Sugar Hill around 145th Street. Multi-million dollar houses up and down every street, plus new 5-story condos. These people don't realize that this architecture stands out as unique. So yeah, just come to Harlem. If thirty NFL or NBA players bought three fewer suits/year, Chicago's inner city could be turned around quick. Kids could learn trades and be set up for later in life. Check this out, in a 4-on-4 basketball tournament with twelve teams, 48 kids expend more energy than is required to renovate an abandoned house *by hand.* No amount of logic will get people to see the big picture. A friend used to tell me about the community programs organized by the original *Black Panthers,* but these days people are too dumbed down to think in big terms.
Can we please send our homeless from California to occupy these homes?!
That would make sense, so the answer is no.
People saying that we should have this for homeless. The cost of repairs is sometimes more to fix then it is to rebuild.
TheRisky9 there is no cost on cultural integrity and preservation
But explaining that to certain people without culture is like trying to explain the cultural significance of historic preservation to a dried rat shit on a dirty paper plate
Camden NJ, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleveland, Youngstown, Toledo, Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Gary IN, parts of Chicago, East St Louis, St Louis, Memphis => Rust Belt dispair.
So sad, so much waste, injustice, and racism at its root
Oprah with your big money, help people in the city that helped you with your show.
Preach
Same with Bezos, Bloomberg, etc.
We can't just blame a random entrepreneur who lived in the city just because she is famous and wealthy, only to absolve ourselves of any responsibility. We aren't entitled to her money. If she is able to + wants to help out of the kindness of her mind, fine, but to try to guilt trip her is _. This is capitalism and bureaucracy at work, we have to think of the total system in order to change things imho.
It’s not her job to bail people out! Why don’t you ask black men to do it?
@@adrianneedwards6179 we prolly shouldn't blame one person or one gender or one group of people or one city for the problem. Peace and love.
Wow.....
They are being given to the huge homeless population...no?
Sure didn't look like that back in 50s. People slept on the boulevard in the summer. Wonder what changed?
there would be people happy to have a place to live and fix up. But the city demands all the back taxes fines penalties and interest be paid amounting to thousands. Then the person that once owned it can walk back in and take it from you. Change the laws Chicago. Give the person that takes the property over a clean slate and quit trying to nickle and dime them to death. Fix your services if required. Make an effort to welcome people instead of grafting them. Only then when you will see your rural city come to life again. Draw in those tax dollars.
Then you'll be accused of gentrification.
Property taxes got us by the balls.. the city should be more transparent and quick to move foward with the repo and resale
If you border Illinois, I will pray for you.
The same issue in Detroit, MI. Very sad.
so you cant have nonoperable cars on your property, but you can have nonoperable properties?!? Property rights are surely in distress.
Corruption is rot. Chicago is a waste of time.
The problem is not houses. The problem is people,
The city should seize those homes and then fix them up for the homeless who can be made to do much of the work in return for a place to live.
Well Said !
Bingo
How Communist of you to say.
Thanks god the economy is doing so great so it all will be fixed in no time!
Who would be crazy enough to tackle this problem.
Chicago will take decades to recover... it's just too late baby now it's to late
Property taxes and tenants who trashed the place. There's the problem.
basspig I blame the tenants
@@ladyboywonder9139 Both are factors. High property taxes penalize homeowners for keeping up their places in good repair.
basspig how so ?
@@ladyboywonder9139 I thought it was obvious: fix up your place, assessment goes up, taxes go up.
basspig OK thanks, yeah you’re right obviously... I was just so fixated on how people can just fucking destroy buildings that they’re supposed to be living in and enjoying and appreciating
Makes me sad, it’s been my lifelong dream to restore an old building and enjoy it
The system makes it hard for folks to keep home overcharging and so on and then to people have to raise there kids to value property and to love.
Why don't they just get rid of the house and plant trees instead? Bring nature back into your neighborhood like it once was.
Hey here's a idea these abandoned houses could be for homeless
They are occupied by homeless until the sheriff's deputies remove them.
Soo they become drug dens
No problem. Tax only owner's non-residing homes. Very High. If they don't pay taxes on these homes - lose home immediately to immediate auction. Instantly, the neighborhood changes. Government needs to exterminate all local officials that don't enact this law immediately.
what a sad state of affairs
The process of gentrification
The real question is where did the people move to ??? I can tell you more than the bulk of them moved to Atlanta. To pick up exactly where they left off at. As far as crime and of course the way they vote. And yes I’m black.
It would be nice if Jobe could buy the property next door, take down that crumbling house, and plant a huge garden. Many other cuties are doing this.
This is done so that everyone and governments can say Black's don't take care of their communities or property, then the land is sold for pennies, BLACK homeowner's are forced out and the area is then rebuilt and sold at higher prices.
But nobody with money wants to live there. Real estate is like that.
What a fkn mess!!! Way more of this to come across the US and Canada. So sad and wasteful. Hope the 1% are warm and happy.
Public Housing projects in NYC were designed to last 40 years. The crazies that moved in destroyed them in 20 years. It was cheaper to raze them and replace than it was to repair. Good luck! The Jungle folfks moved in, then moved out. Mother Nature is restoring the Jungle with trees and branches. History repeats.
One match problem solved......🔥
😂😂
That is called Jewish lightning, a.k.a. ARSON. Do that, and the insurance company lawyers will giggle uncontrollably as you are led off to Anal University. I know you think it sounds funny, but ask anyone who has gone up for that - it's no joke.
starventure Anal University??? Yeah it does sound funny.......but I think they call it San Francisco 💩
Renovate it so it can get trashed again? Who the hell wants to do that?
Feeding corrupt corporations at the expense of community
Then why don't all communities look like that? There seems to be a pattern in severely dilapidated communities.
Why are those homes so close to each other
They find Judith, she says it’s in a trust but doesn’t want to disclose who the owner is due to back taxes then says where do I sign to donate the house... so she owns the house?!
When the industry left. All people should be selling the next day
So couldn't people just move in to these places and start fixing them? No one is there to tell you otherwise?
My grandma's childhood home is a power plant now.
Half the properties in Inglewood are abandoned and in disrepair.
Why are people leaving? Probably because they see the writing on the wall. Property tax increases have turned what might have been stable middle class neighborhoods into a RE traps. Homeowners that based retirement on funds recuperated from the sale of their 'nest egg' now are locked in to these deteriorating cities with no hope of recovery. Where is the turning point? At what point will the cost of living outweigh income and those that could leave left. It is a snowballing effect very visible in places like Chicago: Irvington, NJ and Cleveland. The result: urban blight and crime. More and more of the country is falling victim to blight. The media ignores it preferring to reach stardom by chasing the scandal de jour.