"If people thought there was a good chance of having their property confiscated, they would be reluctant to invest much effort in developing it."
Welcome friend. You have just stepped through the looking glass.
First of all, I doubt anyone but the savviest of real estate brokers could foresee how much of a chance there is their property being confiscated. When most people buy a home, they think more about, say, is it within their price range or if there is a nice tree to hang a swing from. Except, of course, for those that are in an economic position to be able to look into such things.
Secondly you are assume everyone has access to the same circumstances you do. Imagine living is a socioeconomic level where you have no choice when and whether to move. For most of the poor in this county, in particular the working poor and a growing part of the middle class, your choices for where you can by a house are very limited. That is why you see these kind of confiscations happening in low income neighborhood. It is only here that people are not exposed to the information or even the MINDSET of those that can fight such a action. These are the only group that can't fight back. So for this segment of the population, it IS expected and it is NOT RARE.
As with many things in the country, even if a means of escaping your circumstances exists (scholarships, aid programs, legal provisos for stopping your home from getting leveled) if you are poor in this country you will never know these programs even exist.
Now imagine looking at these kind of breaks in logic due to an enforced lack of empathy our country promotes all the time and being powerless to stop while all your friends die. THIS IS THE LIFE OF THE YOUNG, SMART, POOR.
(hot ass conversation though. holla from Philly. after all, believe it or not, they read slashdot in the ghetto too:))
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"only for extraordinary and rare circumstances"
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"If people thought there was a good chance of having their property confiscated, they would be reluctant to invest much effort in developing it."
Welcome friend. You have just stepped through the looking glass.
First of all, I doubt anyone but the savviest of real estate brokers could foresee how much of a chance there is their property being confiscated. When most people buy a home, they think more about, say, is it within their price range or if there is a nice tree to hang a swing from. Except, of course, for those that are in an economic position to be able to look into such things.
Secondly you are assume everyone has access to the same circumstances you do. Imagine living is a socioeconomic level where you have no choice when and whether to move. For most of the poor in this county, in particular the working poor and a growing part of the middle class, your choices for where you can by a house are very limited. That is why you see these kind of confiscations happening in low income neighborhood. It is only here that people are not exposed to the information or even the MINDSET of those that can fight such a action. These are the only group that can't fight back. So for this segment of the population, it IS expected and it is NOT RARE.
As with many things in the country, even if a means of escaping your circumstances exists (scholarships, aid programs, legal provisos for stopping your home from getting leveled) if you are poor in this country you will never know these programs even exist.
Now imagine looking at these kind of breaks in logic due to an enforced lack of empathy our country promotes all the time and being powerless to stop while all your friends die. THIS IS THE LIFE OF THE YOUNG, SMART, POOR.
(hot ass conversation though. holla from Philly. after all, believe it or not, they read slashdot in the ghetto too