Blog Response #3

Hello. the topic of decaying neighborhoods has always been a disturbing topic to me. When I lived in Las Vegas, I saw neighborhoods that were decaying, run down, somewhat abandoned and I knew alot of people who where faced with forclosure on their homes and property. It is scary and has always given me the feeling that, when it comes to homes, cars and other such property, that banks can be very cruel and heartless. I have I have seen alot of homes, and know alot of people with homes, that have been forclosed on by a bank and then, rather then maintaining the homes and putting them up for resale, they have just abandoned the homes and left them to rot away and be prime targets for vandalizm. Personally I think this is horrible and I think Sampson did a fine job of covering this topic. There are some many homeless people that could be living in these homes until the bank sells them or something, but the heartless banks don't see it that way.

I admire Willie 'J.R.' Flemming for is devotion and desire to go out and claim these abandoned and decaying properties so that he could fix them up and moved homeless people into them. My suggestion would be that the banks rent out the homes until they can sell them, that way vandalizm is prevented, the homes are still occupied, somewhat maintained, something that the banks don't seem to want to do, and not left to rot away.