Affordable housing? What a joke! They're kicking out people who CAN afford to be where they are and these idiots want to make these poor folks move out of their homes to make more affordable housing! What a moronic move! Side note to all trailer dwellers, make sure you OWN the land your trailer's on!
@@officecallscartoons a lot of this type of predatory behavior got supercharged under Reagan so don't think for one second he cared about people like you and me. You're a fool if you think that!
Cities hate trailer parks. They want to house poor people, but their superiority complex tells them they can live in trailers. This is happening everywhere. You have to conform to rich peoples tastes 🤷♂️
@@arikaevans3220 It's called democracy. What most retards in America THINK we live under... you wanted it, you got it.. MUH democracy....lol mob rules. Quit your whining...
It's happening everywhere! Corporations are buying up houses and apartment buildings too. Then they kick the apartment renters out and remodel so they can rent them as luxury apartment at higher prices.
@@arikaevans3220 and capitalism. people wanna pretend it's not, but it is. fascism to be more specific in this. whenever. the govt harms the citizens so that private equity can get richer, that's fascism. and fascism is directly a part of capitalism.
Low income housing is non-affordable housing? Nice comment! The city wants to build low income housing there. But, the way they are doing it is unacceptable.
No doubt Walmart tents sold by employees who don't make a living wage. The grocery carts are the property of the corporation so they won't be given out.
This is so messed up. America is a vicious country. These people followed the rules and managed to pay off a mobile home and rent space in a mobile home park, then the government rips the park out from under their feet. Mobile homes aren't "mobile." The government is forcing them into homelessness. This is insane and beyond cruel.
Operative word- rent. They knew the risk. She’s been there 15 years. She couldn’t do any better and then has a kid? Why does everyone blame someone but themselves and their poor choices?
@@dcg590, this is one of the big problems in the US. There is no communal solidarity and poor people are blamed for their own poverty. Not everyone is born with a silver spoon. People raised in poverty don’t go to fancy schools or expensive universities that can get them well paying jobs. Sure, a few break out of the cycle of poverty, but most are never able to. The American Dream is a myth. You are sold on a false notion that the US is the only free country in the world. Yet, in many European countries there is more freedom. Such as the freedom to not lose everything and go broke when the need for hospitalization arises. You were against the ACA because “you didn’t want to pay for anyone else”. We pay for health care, child care, old age pensions, education etc through our taxes. In Europe, we call that communal solidarity. We have unions that guarantee that workers get livable wages, are not worked to death or unfairly terminated. We get a paid vacation as well. In many countries it’s 4 to 6 weeks. Paid maternity leave is also a thing. However the length of time given varies from country to country. In some countries it’s a whole year for the mother. Many countries also offer paid paternity leave for the father as well. When I was young I wanted to live in the US, but now I am sooo grateful that my American born and raised mother decided to remain in Europe with her European born children. She knew better than we did, and today we are much better off for it. Thanks, Mom.
@@dcg590 You really have no concept of what poverty is, do you? Being poor means having very few 'choices', they simply grab the cheapest possibility that offers some security. Btw that was her granddaughter that she's taking care of. I'm so sick of self righteous morons who can't see beyond their own well padded egos, you have no right to judge unless you've walked that mile with what she has to live on.
@@dcg590 The city owned the land for 6 years and did nothing with it and decided now to throw them for "low-income" housing. Not everyone has the money to up an move.
I don't know!!! 😢sad ❤. You can't buy anything for 10,000 dollars anymore!!! No park is going to accept their trailer even if it can be moved!! Big companies that are buying it not the government 🙄. Still only give them a month or 2? Come on they should get 6 months warning ⚠️. City concel has to look at that!! JK FLORIDA USA 🇺🇸.
@@WildernessForever - I hope it doesn't happen to you too. On the Rez that we live on, the local tribal gevernment won't even let the people living in thier housing complexes have gardens or plant fruit trees. And a lady I know says she can't leave her house to her kids because it's on tribal land. It's crazy.
@@cantunderstandfoolishpeeps2036 if it wasn't for the purge heist attack from within by them I would have bought ocean front property in Arizona and moved to Nebraska
They never had any intention of affordable housing. He says there’s a housing shortage already so the best avenue is to increase the shortage. He and the counsel are so deep in their lies that they unable to come up with coherent reasoning and struggling to communicate it. Even a blind man could see through this.
This is unkind and cruel. If they are giving each 10K then they are getting a MASSIVE amount of money for the property. Sickening. I honestly don’t know how people sleep at night. Oh wait-psychopathy…
Simply another example, in a long list, of reasons not to trust the Government. "We're here from the Government, and we're here to help" usually ends in disaster.
You are exactly right. That's what happened to our community in another part of Utah. Most folks living there for many many years and were disabled, veterans and/or in low economic situations. They got a 6 month notice I believe it was. Quite a few with no alternative stayed to the very end and then vacated leaving everything behind. Their mobiles were then destroyed, possessions bulldozed and everything piled into dumpsters and removed. The land was then levelled out. And what replaced all this you may ask?? Why.... expensive condos of course! It was despicable. DESPICABLE.
Moab is a tourism and resort community. The people that live in those mobile homes are the people that clean hotel rooms, grounds keepers, restaurant workers etc. When they move the whole town suffers. Affordable housing has been a major issue in Moab for years.
These folks keep voting for corrupt politicians and expect corrupt politicians to care about poor low income zip codes, taxpayers. Not one politicians keep any promises not even big guy Biden..
Sue the city for what? This is the risk when you own or even rent a dwelling on land you don't own, this has been a risk for mobile home park dwellers for decades
So much wrong with what the city is doing. Just find a way to sell the little parcels of land to each person staying there at the moment. Why make the homeless.
@@JustMe-kg3xcHow do you know that? I bet most of these folks go to work everyday. I really hope that your life is smooth sailing and you never run into turbulence.
@@JustMe-kg3xc Those people are working in service industry jobs in Moab, you know the jobs specifically catering to the tourists that comprise the entirety of Moab's local economy.
You can keep all the nature noises in this $hit reporting but not talk about how you guys are kicking out families to the street. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING.
The cities can do everything they can to get rid of the people they don't want. Clearly the city of moab does not want poor people that live in trailers. Some. B s about their insurance come on.
@@RobotNannyDiaries but they won't because as soon as those mobile homes are out, they're going to sell it off to a developer for several times what they paid for it.
Meanwhile, there are empty and decrepit factories, malls, and other commercial builder rotting away. Why are they allowed to remain an eyesore and hazard?
Happening in my neighborhood soon I own a house as do all of my neighbors and City Counsel is buying up land around us ( Rezoning) to build 6 story high rise apartments with no parking they want everyone who rents them to use bikes or public transit sadly they discovered after 30 years that we are close to downtown. I will be fighting it but probably won't get far. I just came in from sitting on my front porch enjoying the peace and quiet of a Sunday afternoon, yesterday I watched and heard the laughs and giggles of my neighbors 3 little boys as they played in the grass in their front yard. This is what America wants not high rise apartments. Anna In Ohio
I think this is happening all over the country. Our little town in North Idaho did the same thing - evicting everyone in the trailer parks to "upgrade". "Bite off the nose to spite the face". My heart and prayers go out to everyone forced into homelessness.
In the play list to right of this video is "Mobile home evictions continue in Blount Co., leaving local homeowners scrambling". Happening across the USA. Investment Mgmt Companies with money enough to feed a bonfire, looking for entrance to cheap land that can be sold for multiple times over & above; or managed in the business model versus human model (senior citizen care, small hospitals, etc). In @BuhodePiedra's comment : Vulture Capitalists.
I don't think that the city of Moab has 95 billion. Or are you talking about the federal money that will go into the pockets of workers in Alabama, Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Ohio who make the weapons that we are sending to Ukraine ? The Putin/GOP propaganda machine is lying to you.
You’re an idiot. It’s not cash given to Ukraine it’s weapons The money stays with American companies Stop believing these right wing lies Think for yourself
I did some math and $95 billion would buy enough $500k 3 room houses to provide a room to every single homeless man, woman, and child in America - about 600,000.
Perhaps Moab Mayor needs to rethink the COLA adjustment for all city employees including a 16k salary increase for county sheriff since its department is already among the most expensive. And maybe Council Kaitlin Myers should have to figure it out for the newly displace since she was “elected to do a job” she said and was the lone voice in supporting the COLA increase. Didn’t the council approve a 20 million budget?
@@mjblue84the land your unit is on. There there is common property that is owned by the other units. You all own the land in a condo. On a mobile home park you lease the land
Don't blame the mobile home. Just be cautious about moving it to a mobile home park where you rent the space and pay HOA or dues because they are notorious for squeezing people out of their homes. Moab is difficult due to lack of land. But land is cheap near many small towns near Utah. Lots of people I know were priced out of the city and bought land and nice double wides and are enjoying living in the mountains nearby now. A little longer scenic drive to the city but worth it to them.
It already is criminalized in some places like Flagstaff. If you sleep in your car or even break down, you could spend the night in jail. We broke down there once and the policeman said we only had until about 3 am to fix the car & get it out of the parking lot or we could be arrested. We were just passing through.
@@mafp22w right.. a capitalist government that works for profit and has zero of the consumer protections or guardrails of the capitalism of the 60’s and 70’s. Housing, water, health care, these things are not sacred but for profit. Pay or be homeless, pay or die of thirst or cancer.. they don’t care. Thus, Vulture Capitalism.
I think so too. And people who are doubling rents. It's been happening here. Used to be you could even get a room for $250-$350. Now it seems you can't find anything for under $1,000. Even a mobile park I inquired about 10 years ago has gone from $250 a month lot rent to $1,000 a month.
Having been a trailer dweller, I feel terrible for the people and the babies being raised in them. They're full of mold and chemicals, you could see how run down and rickety those trailers were. This might not have been the best solution, but "affordable housing" should mean slightly more than a 1950's trailer where you own the box but not the land under it.
Maybe.. but it's still "Home" to these people. I've lived 50 years in mine and it's old and decrepit because no one will work on them even if you can pay.
@@WildernessForever If you remove the bad housing and replace it with better housing the housing prices have to normalize. Also, you've lived in a trailer for 50 years... a trailer that was a temporary shelter which you were dumb enough to turn into a permanent living situation and once realized did nothing to try to fix. Just sitting there bemoaning your health issues and rotting ceiling. LEAVE. That's not what those are for. They don't get worked on because they're not meant to be worked on and repaired. They're meant to be disposed of and only lived in temporarily while permanent housing is being built. Take a bit of advice, if someone calls you saying they're your grandson and in prison in Mexico, don't give them any money.
The affordable=Rich people. Affordable no longer means for middle class or below. For new “Affordable” housing here in Hawai’i, it starts around 700-900k. You have to be a millionaire to afford the “affordable”.
Moab is a fast growing tourist town. The land those trailers are on is now worth tens of million$ to out-of-state developers. It's like Jackson Wyoming, the out-of-state billionaires are crowding out the out-of-state millionaires and the in-state lower and middle class can no longer afford to live there.
Moab is a small area....there's hardly anything available there and if something is, it's gonna be spendy. This is really sad. 2 months is nothing for an entire neighborhood to find a place to live.
This happened to me in 2018. I literally had nowhere to go. I live alone. The building I lived in was immediately being torn down and renovated.I was going to sleep in my storage shed for a couple of weeks until I had more saved to put down on another place. My one friend took me in and I lived with him and his mom until i saved enough for my own place. I’m STILL in the same place (MY PLACE) now for 6 years 🙂 I have my 4 Guinea pigs and I’m very happy.
@@evonne315if it’s not their own fault then who? These people knew the deal. They don’t own the land. Now the consequences kick in and it’s everyone else’s fault? No. And she says it’s so hard and has a kid? These are poor choices
@@Jleed989 Where I live we have the double homestead exemption, 100% disabled vets are property tax exempt, Current Military are Property tax exempt, once people reach a certain age property tax halts. So try again
@@climate_anti-hoax -True but it's far less likely to happen than if you rent. Without a long-term contract, the landlord can decide he wants you out at any time with 30 days notice.
Or your insurance company decline to renew and the city forces you out. And then new homes are built that cost much more to insure and the city gets more property tax and the insurance company gets even higher premiums for property insurance. All about profit.
This might be a case where the city considers this an eyesore and they were looking for an excuse to get the people out of there and then bulldoze it down.
The Springfield, MO. Counsel did same thing couple years back. Evicted people, some who'd been in their trailers 20- 15 years and were retirees. The low cost housing they put in their place was a bunch of those micro houses that they wanted more to rent than the trailer park's original owners charged for less square footage to live in. Thanx government.
Same thing in Kansas City 10000 that they never actually got at the heart mobile home village so Jackson county could build a jail prosecute anybody and people sign out on their own recognizance for assault with a deadly weapon. Rocket science thinking here...
This happened to my dad and he got 5k which was nothing compared to how much he paid for the place. This is what’s going to happen everywhere the government will not allow you to live in peace or live cheaply they always find a way to exacerbate homelessness
Hint it's already affordable housing. Dumbest city council
Bingo
America is taking over by evil and lacking no common sense greedy!
Utah becoming the greediest place in the country.
Gentrification council. Not surprising from Mormons.
They're a threat to our national security.
Affordable housing? What a joke! They're kicking out people who CAN afford to be where they are and these idiots want to make these poor folks move out of their homes to make more affordable housing! What a moronic move! Side note to all trailer dwellers, make sure you OWN the land your trailer's on!
Want to bet that "affordable" housing project will become a McMansion subdivision .
They don't build affordable housing here in Georgia, it is the McMansions you are talking about. Got to get them taxes and insurance.
not in moab
I got $10 to bet on that one.
Yep giving $10,000. each says it all
Of course it will be luxury or market rate housing,
Replacing affordable housing with homelessness. That is the truth of the government “helping” each and every time.
It's the city in Moab it's wrong what they are doing
Amen
"We're from the government, and we're here to help."
The most terrifying words to hear according to Ronald Regan. 🫤
They wont be homeless in moab. The morms will get rid of them. Morms hate the homeless and poor, cant pay for faqn temples
They love say ton
@@officecallscartoons a lot of this type of predatory behavior got supercharged under Reagan so don't think for one second he cared about people like you and me. You're a fool if you think that!
You don’t help house low income families by making other low income families homeless. Come on City of Moab you can do far better than this.
Cities hate trailer parks. They want to house poor people, but their superiority complex tells them they can live in trailers. This is happening everywhere. You have to conform to rich peoples tastes 🤷♂️
They could but they won’t
Mormons actually serve say ton
They hate the poor. Poor cant give money to build temples
They anti jesus
Well I pay $1500 a month for rent, my neighbor pays $300 a month and the federal government pays the other $1200.
Exactly.
How cruel! It's like there is an effort to make all ordinary Americans homeless.
Yes, I believe you and others have finally figured it out.
You nailed it.
You will own nothing and be happy.
Now, eat your bugs.
🍻
Been going on for a decade. It's sick.
Not just homeless, but also drowning in debt
10k to move out the residents and then sell to a developer for triple what they bought it for. I've seen this show before.
I bet it’s more like 20 times what they paid for it! Maybe even 30
It's called gentrification.
@@arikaevans3220 It's called democracy. What most retards in America THINK we live under... you wanted it, you got it..
MUH democracy....lol mob rules. Quit your whining...
It's happening everywhere! Corporations are buying up houses and apartment buildings too. Then they kick the apartment renters out and remodel so they can rent them as luxury apartment at higher prices.
@@arikaevans3220 and capitalism. people wanna pretend it's not, but it is. fascism to be more specific in this. whenever. the govt harms the citizens so that private equity can get richer, that's fascism. and fascism is directly a part of capitalism.
Get rid of all the mobile homes and replace them with non-affordable housing. Nice move!
Low income housing is non-affordable housing?
Nice comment!
The city wants to build low income housing there.
But, the way they are doing it is unacceptable.
Most places won't take older mobile homes and a lot are not in shape to be moved.
That 10k isn't enough to move a manufactured home either. And where will they take it?
I dk if it is my state or nationwide, if 25 years old they CAN NOT be moved....
If I tried to move my old mh it would crumble to dust!
True
Moab sucks its a plastic tourist trap,
Cruelty has no end
My friends specialize in it
Next they will be confiscating tin cups off of blind beggars!
Greed is bottomless. 🫤
I'm really shocked everyone in my life was a evil entitled greedy pos
@pkm7518 you remind me of your mother considering you have never cared past lunch or said anything original and helpful
I won't be spending my money in Moab anymore.
Don't lump ever one in the same basket. I have family that live there and they would never do this to them.
What they will be given is a grocery cart and a tent.
No doubt Walmart tents sold by employees who don't make a living wage. The grocery carts are the property of the corporation so they won't be given out.
They will be lucky to get the tent.
I was thinking more along the lines of two weeks of hotel vouchers, and after that a bus ticket.
Or a one way ticket back across the border.
Affordable housing for the upper-class you mean.
Yes. They like Utah to have views from their custom homes and rocks and dirt roads to play on with their expensive toys.
This is so messed up. America is a vicious country. These people followed the rules and managed to pay off a mobile home and rent space in a mobile home park, then the government rips the park out from under their feet. Mobile homes aren't "mobile." The government is forcing them into homelessness. This is insane and beyond cruel.
Old mobile homes in bad repair are certainly not movable.
Operative word- rent. They knew the risk. She’s been there 15 years. She couldn’t do any better and then has a kid? Why does everyone blame someone but themselves and their poor choices?
@@dcg590, this is one of the big problems in the US. There is no communal solidarity and poor people are blamed for their own poverty. Not everyone is born with a silver spoon. People raised in poverty don’t go to fancy schools or expensive universities that can get them well paying jobs. Sure, a few break out of the cycle of poverty, but most are never able to. The American Dream is a myth.
You are sold on a false notion that the US is the only free country in the world. Yet, in many European countries there is more freedom.
Such as the freedom to not lose everything and go broke when the need for hospitalization arises. You were against the ACA because “you didn’t want to pay for anyone else”. We pay for health care, child care, old age pensions, education etc through our taxes. In Europe, we call that communal solidarity. We have unions that guarantee that workers get livable wages, are not worked to death or unfairly terminated. We get a paid vacation as well. In many countries it’s 4 to 6 weeks. Paid maternity leave is also a thing. However the length of time given varies from country to country. In some countries it’s a whole year for the mother. Many countries also offer paid paternity leave for the father as well.
When I was young I wanted to live in the US, but now I am sooo grateful that my American born and raised mother decided to remain in Europe with her European born children. She knew better than we did, and today we are much better off for it. Thanks, Mom.
@@dcg590 You really have no concept of what poverty is, do you? Being poor means having very few 'choices', they simply grab the cheapest possibility that offers some security. Btw that was her granddaughter that she's taking care of.
I'm so sick of self righteous morons who can't see beyond their own well padded egos, you have no right to judge unless you've walked that mile with what she has to live on.
@@dcg590 The city owned the land for 6 years and did nothing with it and decided now to throw them for "low-income" housing. Not everyone has the money to up an move.
Cruel and heartless to kick poor people out onto the street. How can these city council members look at themselves in the mirror?
If you can believe it, they like what they see.
They're vampires; they don't have reflections.
Exactly!
I don't know!!! 😢sad ❤. You can't buy anything for 10,000 dollars anymore!!! No park is going to accept their trailer even if it can be moved!! Big companies that are buying it not the government 🙄. Still only give them a month or 2? Come on they should get 6 months warning ⚠️. City concel has to look at that!! JK FLORIDA USA 🇺🇸.
Its easy for them when they also hold up the money from the developers.
$10000 of tax payer dollars as a bribe?
they'll buy an old rv and live in parking lots, that'll be an improvement
At least it's going to actual American citizens 🙊
@@bigmamassoul8323 very true 😂
@@bigmamassoul8323 Right!
When California goes Yellowstone goes so we mine the fault lines at the salt n sea for lithium and subsidize electric cars.
This is happening all over the country. Sign of the times.
Heartless, sociopathic times.
Its happening here in pocatello Idaho too. $1,800 is not affordable but the city claims it is.
Sign of the END times.
Great , so they become homeless and move onto sidewalk tents, brilliant.
In Moab???
And then grandma loses custody of the grandkids and they go into foster homes
Welcome to America! As a Native American, I can honestly say that I know how you feel.
They betrayed you guys, they will betray their preferred too. I'm impressed by the levels of audacity.
After reading this comment, I discovered a feather in my hair.
I live in a trailer on the Rez. Hope that doesn't happen to us so a new casino can be built
@@WildernessForever - I hope it doesn't happen to you too. On the Rez that we live on, the local tribal gevernment won't even let the people living in thier housing complexes have gardens or plant fruit trees. And a lady I know says she can't leave her house to her kids because it's on tribal land. It's crazy.
Big corporations buying up the land.
You misspelled black panthers
The worst is, it’s foreign countries buying it up
@@Odin33356 Let them have it, it will eventually fall into the sea anyway...
@@cantunderstandfoolishpeeps2036 if it wasn't for the purge heist attack from within by them I would have bought ocean front property in Arizona and moved to Nebraska
@@cantunderstandfoolishpeeps2036 this place is a temporary joke at very best
This is unconscionable. This level of mismanagement of the city council and local government is reprehensible
They never had any intention of affordable housing. He says there’s a housing shortage already so the best avenue is to increase the shortage. He and the counsel are so deep in their lies that they unable to come up with coherent reasoning and struggling to communicate it. Even a blind man could see through this.
They create it to get funding that they use for other things instead of what it's meant for. Shameless
No they will put up HUGE complexes, all government subsidized.
@@jamesharmon3827 Not a chance, they're going to sell it off to a developer to turn into airBNBs as soon as those mobile homes are out.
This is unkind and cruel. If they are giving each 10K then they are getting a MASSIVE amount of money for the property. Sickening. I honestly don’t know how people sleep at night. Oh wait-psychopathy…
Simply another example, in a long list, of reasons not to trust the Government. "We're here from the Government, and we're here to help" usually ends in disaster.
Or city like Moab obviously they care more about money then people
If you believe that I have a lovely little user agreement here you can sign and I assure you you'll be taken care of by a private entity LOL.
Right, just look how they've "helped" with the drug problem and with the crime problem, for example .
They’re moving them to put in something upgraded and fancy. Moab is changing into something I don’t like anymore 😢
That's the way America is now. Capital and profit over everything.....
You are exactly right. That's what happened to our community in another part of Utah. Most folks living there for many many years and were disabled, veterans and/or in low economic situations. They got a 6 month notice I believe it was. Quite a few with no alternative stayed to the very end and then vacated leaving everything behind. Their mobiles were then destroyed, possessions bulldozed and everything piled into dumpsters and removed. The land was then levelled out. And what replaced all this you may ask?? Why.... expensive condos of course! It was despicable. DESPICABLE.
Las Vegas money speaking
@@duancoviero9759 The government is doing this so there is NO capital or profit.
@@offthehook4u They want to make MOWAB a Park City South!
We are in a housing dystopia - this isn't a "red state only" or "blue state only" issue. It's a nationwide crisis.
@Mlogan11 You gave us all something to think about. The challenge is to think it through, then do something actually constructive.
The $10k is a bribe to move out of MOAB.
None of those trailers aren't even worth 10k. I'd take it in a heartbeat.
It's a bribe to move off that land....
@@adolfmcduck1265 They may not be much but they are homes, what home can you get for $10K anywhere?
@@adolfmcduck1265 and where would they live? $10,000 is nothing, that would not help them for long.
Moab is a tourism and resort community. The people that live in those mobile homes are the people that clean hotel rooms, grounds keepers, restaurant workers etc. When they move the whole town suffers. Affordable housing has been a major issue in Moab for years.
Not just Utah. They’re literally doing this all over the U.S
This keeps happening everywhere, while we are in the midst of a housing crisis. Its cruel and evil.
This is what created the housing crisis.
These folks keep voting for corrupt politicians and expect corrupt politicians to care about poor low income zip codes, taxpayers. Not one politicians keep any promises not even big guy Biden..
@@bobknull7502 Greed and people seeing it as an "investment" rather than a utility...
Just plain evil 😈. JK FLORIDA USA 🇺🇸.
Get together and sue the city of moab...
I hope they can and do sue the city.
They rent. This is the deal, they knew it. Things don’t stay the same forever
Not easy to sue a city, they are protected by the Doctrine of Municipal Immunity.
Sue the city for what? This is the risk when you own or even rent a dwelling on land you don't own, this has been a risk for mobile home park dwellers for decades
If they take the money they can’t sue.
I’ll bet $1000 that within two years they’ll be some fancy houses or really luxury apartments in that spot.
This sad situation is not necessary. If you cannot afford to help the people, at least don't hurt them.
Yup -- it's the first mandate of the Hippocratic Oath = "First -- do no harm." :(
Leaving people alone does not increase profits. Duh.
So much wrong with what the city is doing. Just find a way to sell the little parcels of land to each person staying there at the moment. Why make the homeless.
Those people are already mooching off the taxpayers. Highly doubtful they would be buying the "little parcels of land."
@@JustMe-kg3xcHow do you know that? I bet most of these folks go to work everyday. I really hope that your life is smooth sailing and you never run into turbulence.
@@JustMe-kg3xc Those people are working in service industry jobs in Moab, you know the jobs specifically catering to the tourists that comprise the entirety of Moab's local economy.
Let's turn the tables and tell the politicians and bureaucrats that did this, that they have two months to get out of town..
Who exactly are they building affordable housing for ? They are evicting some of the people who need it right now and they were there first.
Excellent point
They should have put a pretty fence around it and called it affordable housing to begin with😢
Timothy is a con job name
@@Odin33356 Kiss my 💋 🪺
@Odin33356 👋 Hey Odin, it's time to come home. Your mom's calling you dinner's ready. What are you 5 years old?
That is cruel and its unjust. They are just targeting lower working class people. All rents are too high where will theese people go?
You can keep all the nature noises in this $hit reporting but not talk about how you guys are kicking out families to the street. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING.
Who do they think is going to work in their restaurants motels and tourist shops?
Anyone
Commute from Grand Junction or Monticello haha.
You got all the rich people moving in.... They don't want the plebs.
Us peasants? The horror. Won't someone think of the yuppies?!
They will all have to face the Righteous judge some day! That lake of fire is waiting!
@@markasteelsr.5990 remember they got their Zion thingy dingy stuff going on....
It will become affordable housing for those with high 6 figure income.
The cities can do everything they can to get rid of the people they don't want. Clearly the city of moab does not want poor people that live in trailers. Some.
B s about their insurance come on.
The City could sell the property to the residents for what they paid for it
@@RobotNannyDiaries I bet they know that
They ignore it because it’s the bitter truth
@@RobotNannyDiaries but they won't because as soon as those mobile homes are out, they're going to sell it off to a developer for several times what they paid for it.
AND if you own it and can't move it, the new developer will charge you to demolish it. Happened all over Boise
Meanwhile, there are empty and decrepit factories, malls, and other commercial builder rotting away. Why are they allowed to remain an eyesore and hazard?
High Rise Development Coming to A Neigherhood Near You😮
Yeah that is the usual play to make it private somehow
Happening in my neighborhood soon I own a house as do all of my neighbors and City Counsel is buying up land around us ( Rezoning) to build 6 story high rise apartments with no parking they want everyone who rents them to use bikes or public transit sadly they discovered after 30 years that we are close to downtown. I will be fighting it but probably won't get far. I just came in from sitting on my front porch enjoying the peace and quiet of a Sunday afternoon, yesterday I watched and heard the laughs and giggles of my neighbors 3 little boys as they played in the grass in their front yard. This is what America wants not high rise apartments. Anna In Ohio
Greed at its best.
It's not greed. Like Jesus Christ!
@@chris135x then what would you call it?
The real reason, it's an eyesore and they want to get rid of it..
Billions of dollars sent to foreign countries! And our citizens are homeless. My heart goes out to these people.
I think this is happening all over the country. Our little town in North Idaho did the same thing - evicting everyone in the trailer parks to "upgrade". "Bite off the nose to spite the face". My heart and prayers go out to everyone forced into homelessness.
In the play list to right of this video is "Mobile home evictions continue in Blount Co., leaving local homeowners scrambling". Happening across the USA. Investment Mgmt Companies with money enough to feed a bonfire, looking for entrance to cheap land that can be sold for multiple times over & above; or managed in the business model versus human model (senior citizen care, small hospitals, etc). In @BuhodePiedra's comment : Vulture Capitalists.
But give 95 billion away
I don't think that the city of Moab has 95 billion. Or are you talking about the federal money that will go into the pockets of workers in Alabama, Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Ohio who make the weapons that we are sending to Ukraine ? The Putin/GOP propaganda machine is lying to you.
Yes but that is for multi million dollar mansions and yauhts in Ukraine!!
@@oldbuzzard8536so what
You’re an idiot. It’s not cash given to Ukraine it’s weapons
The money stays with American companies
Stop believing these right wing lies
Think for yourself
I did some math and $95 billion would buy enough $500k 3 room houses to provide a room to every single homeless man, woman, and child in America - about 600,000.
Perhaps Moab Mayor needs to rethink the COLA adjustment for all city employees including a 16k salary increase for county sheriff since its department is already among the most expensive.
And maybe Council Kaitlin Myers should have to figure it out for the newly displace since she was “elected to do a job” she said and was the lone voice in supporting the COLA increase. Didn’t the council approve a 20 million budget?
Raises for me and evictions for thee
The city of Moab should be ashamed of themselves. Ridiculous considering the housing shortage all over the state and country.
Scenarios like this are playing out all over the country. It is shameful.
I’m hearing more stories like this and nearly in every case it involves the entire property being sold to a foreign national.
That’s what I’m hearing too
Sad the first thing in my head is Moab City is looking to collect more property taxes from the more expensive homes that will be built there.
Make it a Park City South.....
Insurance ?? weasel excuse to use instead of just saying they've been priced out ...
Exactly. They can’t even formulate an coherent excuse thats not laughable.
City folded to the insurance company? Tf, when will Americans wake tf up to what is happening?
It's going get a lot worse for the poor
It's going to get worse for everyone.
We're all going to be poor soon.
And there are going to be a lot more poor people.
@@WildernessForeverThis is the truth.
Never buy mobile because the land is not your.
Even condominiums. The land is not yours. So much for "America" being such a great place to live the dream. What dream?
Buy a mobile home if you already have the land or buy a package deal.. Mobile home and the land.
@@mjblue84the land your unit is on. There there is common property that is owned by the other units. You all own the land in a condo. On a mobile home park you lease the land
Same with HOAs.
Don't blame the mobile home. Just be cautious about moving it to a mobile home park where you rent the space and pay HOA or dues because they are notorious for squeezing people out of their homes. Moab is difficult due to lack of land. But land is cheap near many small towns near Utah. Lots of people I know were priced out of the city and bought land and nice double wides and are enjoying living in the mountains nearby now. A little longer scenic drive to the city but worth it to them.
Why doesn’t the city government spend money to improve trailer park rather than evicting residents?
That's exactly what I was thinking!
We need to start begging other countries to help our homeless and hungry because our country doesn't care😢
The city should be ashamed of themselves!
My guess is that once homelessness is criminalized, they will be forced to relocate to a place for homeless people, like the city in Hawaii.
It already is criminalized in some places like Flagstaff. If you sleep in your car or even break down, you could spend the night in jail. We broke down there once and the policeman said we only had until about 3 am to fix the car & get it out of the parking lot or we could be arrested. We were just passing through.
Relocation will be to "camps" where you can check in but you can never leave.
This is why other countries call us Vulture Capitalists.
This isn’t capitalism: it’s government.
@@mafp22w right.. a capitalist government that works for profit and has zero of the consumer protections or guardrails of the capitalism of the 60’s and 70’s. Housing, water, health care, these things are not sacred but for profit. Pay or be homeless, pay or die of thirst or cancer.. they don’t care. Thus, Vulture Capitalism.
@@mafp22wLOCAL government. Probably likely to personally benefit from sale of the land to developers.
@@mafp22w yes, a capitalist government
Moab City council has had SIX years to develop a plan for the area, but is now scrambling because it can no longer get insurance. This is a disgrace.
If you don't own the land this can happen at anytime.
Even if you own the land if you don't pay your taxes it's still possible it could be taken away. 😥
*eminent domain has entered the chat* Even if you do own the land, if a developer wants it enough the government will find a way to take it from you.
@@mrvwbug4423 - True, but all you can to is try to do the best for yourself & family.
City should sell to the community
The city is the ones kicking them out.
This is the true reason of homelessness. Low rent neighborhoods are being bought and destroyed all over the nation.
I think so too. And people who are doubling rents. It's been happening here. Used to be you could even get a room for $250-$350. Now it seems you can't find anything for under $1,000. Even a mobile park I inquired about 10 years ago has gone from $250 a month lot rent to $1,000 a month.
Having been a trailer dweller, I feel terrible for the people and the babies being raised in them. They're full of mold and chemicals, you could see how run down and rickety those trailers were. This might not have been the best solution, but "affordable housing" should mean slightly more than a 1950's trailer where you own the box but not the land under it.
Well now affordable housing is going to mean far less than the an old 50s trailer - it’s going to mean homelessness and living on the streets.
@@Darkstar-se6wc It can literally only get better for them if they try.
Maybe.. but it's still "Home" to these people. I've lived 50 years in mine and it's old and decrepit because no one will work on them even if you can pay.
@@handlesshouldntdefaulttonamesHow?? Have you seen rental prices?
@@WildernessForever If you remove the bad housing and replace it with better housing the housing prices have to normalize. Also, you've lived in a trailer for 50 years... a trailer that was a temporary shelter which you were dumb enough to turn into a permanent living situation and once realized did nothing to try to fix. Just sitting there bemoaning your health issues and rotting ceiling. LEAVE. That's not what those are for. They don't get worked on because they're not meant to be worked on and repaired. They're meant to be disposed of and only lived in temporarily while permanent housing is being built. Take a bit of advice, if someone calls you saying they're your grandson and in prison in Mexico, don't give them any money.
I feel so sorry for these families.All the best from Arizona. MM
The affordable=Rich people. Affordable no longer means for middle class or below. For new “Affordable” housing here in Hawai’i, it starts around 700-900k. You have to be a millionaire to afford the “affordable”.
Thing is I don't think its housing shortage. It's the oddness that's treating houses as a profit/want not a need.
Sooooo. You want to make affordable housing but are kicking people out of the only homes they can afford to live in?! Yeaaaaa that makes sense 🤔🤔😳😳😳
So poor people are getting kicked out of their homes because of the need for affordable housing? How can that make sense?
Watch out for private equity snatching up businesses in every industry (mobile home parks, nursing homes, veterinary clinics, etc) and destroying them
Moab is a fast growing tourist town. The land those trailers are on is now worth tens of million$ to out-of-state developers. It's like Jackson Wyoming, the out-of-state billionaires are crowding out the out-of-state millionaires and the in-state lower and middle class can no longer afford to live there.
It already IS an affordable housing development.
Its all about money. Pray for these families..
Oh yeah -- pray -- like you, I was planning on doing absolutely nothing as well to help these poor people. :(
I would absolutely help if I could. But , I am a 53 yr old grandma who has taken guardianship of my 7 week old grandson. So my money is all tide up.
I am canceling my vacation to Moab.
Moab is a small area....there's hardly anything available there and if something is, it's gonna be spendy. This is really sad. 2 months is nothing for an entire neighborhood to find a place to live.
Alot are in very bad condition, wont be able to be moved elsewhere, a lot of places wont even take older mobile homes.
This happened to me in 2018.
I literally had nowhere to go. I live alone. The building I lived in was immediately being torn down and renovated.I was going to sleep in my storage shed for a couple of weeks until I had more saved to put down on another place.
My one friend took me in and I lived with him and his mom until i saved enough for my own place.
I’m STILL in the same place (MY PLACE) now for 6 years 🙂
I have my 4 Guinea pigs and I’m very happy.
So glad for you & your “babies” 😊
"Land of the free" never forget how much of a lie that is everyday.
Land of the Free ? Well, it used to be before all of the ignorant one's started voting Democrat...
The sensible thing would be to work and find people housing then move them out that way no one is falling through the cracks or being overpaid
Greed on full display.
@Youreanidiot-qi5njBecause you touch yourself at night.
They literally don't care. It's not their problem. If people go homeless they will say its thier own fault and justify themselves.
@Youreanidiot-qi5nj I didn't get notified what was the question?
@@evonne315if it’s not their own fault then who? These people knew the deal. They don’t own the land. Now the consequences kick in and it’s everyone else’s fault? No. And she says it’s so hard and has a kid? These are poor choices
That's why you don't place something you own on land you don't.
Nobody owns any land. Stop paying your property taxes and see
@@Jleed989 Where I live we have the double homestead exemption, 100% disabled vets are property tax exempt, Current Military are Property tax exempt, once people reach a certain age property tax halts. So try again
@@winniethepoohandeeyore2Oh, really? I'm 70 years old and still pay property taxes because I still work and am above their income limit
@@WildernessForever Where I live it halts age age 65...Since you still work, you know you can deduct property taxes right?
Don't let these people lose a home
Replace the space appropriately with grace .
The world is watching you 😮
We wiped out a 500 mobile home park for thousand high end apartment/condos. Average rent trippled. Uhaul and 500 miles or more. Sorrowful
Build Back Better at work... the question is, For WHO???
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
It's moab, their only ambition is the removal of the seedy looking places.
At least they are getting money for it. Most places don't offer a buy out package.
10,000 dollars??!! That should help relocate
She could cut back on haircolor an perm. She has braces. Messed up priorities.
They need to get together to sue the city.
Babies' daddies should be paying the rent. Why is GM taking care of them.
We don't know her situation. Anything is possible. Perhaps her grandchildren are orphans, or the parents are homeless. Who knows?
this is a lesson to all, if you can, avoid renting land and buy your own
Your land can still be taken away from entities like HOA or for eminent domain for the wealthy. You're not immune, even if you buy your own.
@@climate_anti-hoax -True but it's far less likely to happen than if you rent. Without a long-term contract, the landlord can decide he wants you out at any time with 30 days notice.
Or your insurance company decline to renew and the city forces you out. And then new homes are built that cost much more to insure and the city gets more property tax and the insurance company gets even higher premiums for property insurance. All about profit.
$100,000 each.
This might be a case where the city considers this an eyesore and they were looking for an excuse to get the people out of there and then bulldoze it down.
By the looks of some of those trailers, they don’t look like they would survive a move.
They wouldn’t, and even if they were newer it’s $4K-$5K.
she's a grandmother with braces?...every trailer there looks like a fire hazard......
Yep, and she didn't say why her grandkids live with her and not their parents.
Please if there is a righteous lawyer reading this help these people sue the City of Moab.
The Springfield, MO. Counsel did same thing couple years back. Evicted people, some who'd been in their trailers 20- 15 years and were retirees. The low cost housing they put in their place was a bunch of those micro houses that they wanted more to rent than the trailer park's original owners charged for less square footage to live in. Thanx government.
Same thing in Kansas City 10000 that they never actually got at the heart mobile home village so Jackson county could build a jail prosecute anybody and people sign out on their own recognizance for assault with a deadly weapon. Rocket science thinking here...
This happened to my dad and he got 5k which was nothing compared to how much he paid for the place. This is what’s going to happen everywhere the government will not allow you to live in peace or live cheaply they always find a way to exacerbate homelessness
Some new apartments are coming ..watch