I read how certain people are so compassionate and concerned about equality and access to housing for all. It made me raise questions I now want to ask:
If we are concerned about access to housing, why don't we work together to lower the down-payment requirements? They could be lower; a person's income could cover the mortgage but maybe not a huge down payment.
If we are concerned with people being able to stay in housing, why can they be thrown into the streets for non-payment of property taxes even if they are current on their mortgage? Isn't this a barbaric and inhumane approach?
Why as a society have we allowed taxation to result in homelessness? Can't we come up with a penalty other than the police removing a person from their only home? (Having seen this done, I was so enraged and disgusted I could not believe my eyes.)
Poor people deserve to be helped, but we cannot begin to address their issues as long as we allow their homes (as soon as they get them) to be seized from them for trivial reasons (taxes). Garnishing wages or imposing punishments other than those that result in homelessness seems more humane and reasonable.
We have a lot of work to do as a society to protect people's property rights as sacred. Once you own a home it should be your home forever (assuming you own no other properties). We need to respect that.
Until we do, the poorest among us will suffer the most loss, largely due to taxes undermining their lives and costing them their homes.
The message is: Pay up, or we will throw you into the street and get someone into that home who will pay up. How sickening and how ashamed we should all be!