Wednesday Links
Operation Impact Cuts Crime in Tough Hoods [NY Times] Home Sales Fell Sharply in November [NY Times] Rules Set for Mortgage Loan Appraisals [NY Times] Bush Pardons Brooklyn Mortgage Shark [NY Daily News] Atlantic Yards Shifting from Condos to Rentals [NY Daily News] City’s Homeless Population Hits Record High [NY1] This is the only post…
Operation Impact Cuts Crime in Tough Hoods [NY Times]
Home Sales Fell Sharply in November [NY Times]
Rules Set for Mortgage Loan Appraisals [NY Times]
Bush Pardons Brooklyn Mortgage Shark [NY Daily News]
Atlantic Yards Shifting from Condos to Rentals [NY Daily News]
City’s Homeless Population Hits Record High [NY1]
This is the only post for today, so consider it an Open Thread. We’ll be back online again Monday. Have a great Christmas!
Hello everyone and happy holidays. Joyeaux Noel et bonne annee!
GHB, our good friend MM is a dudette 🙂
Hello everyone and happy holidays. Joyeaux Noel et bonne annee!
GHB MM id a dudette:)
Nope, GHB. Dudessa.
I’m headed off to bells and smells tonight – Midnight Mass at my local Episcopal church. A family tradition from childhood (Catholic mass, then) that always embodies Christmas for me. Carols sung with a large pipe organ, the scent of incense and pine, the processions and vestments, the Christmas story from Luke, excerpts from Handel’s Messiah, and every once in a while, falling snow. It can’t get better than that.
Benson, isn’t Montrose a dude?
Hope everyone takes the time to remember the true reason for the season. Thank God for your blessings because through the good and the bad, whether you deserve it or not he continues to show his mercy and sustains you.Wishes for a blessed healthy safe New Year.Happy holidays all.Now as I get on the road to upstate traveling mercies to others who have to travel as well.
Hi folks;
I’m off today, busy helping my wife prepare for our dinner tonight (we will have 13 guests).
Happy Holidays to all. Montrose said it all – there is nothing I can add to her words.
I look forward to more discussions in 2009!! Let’s hope that the economy improves, so that we don’t have to see such stories about homelessness. God bless all.
🙁 sorry i didn’t mean to come across that way.
*rob*
Do you truly think that’s funny, Rob? Sometimes you really come off as a douchebag.
Mopar–
As a nonprofit fundraiser who works on poverty-related issues, all of your reasons are correct, except maybe the last one (it might be true, but I haven’t seen any stats to that effect).
And I’d say the job losses are in all industries, and worse for folks who are undocumented and/or had cash jobs (domestic workers, for example) as they generally can’t file for unemployment.
Also bear in mind that most people don’t lose their apartment and immediately go to the shelter system–they stay with friends or family first. But after two or three months that becomes untenable. I think we’re seeing an uptick of folks with no other option but the shelter system, as the economy has been worse for low-wage workers for many months, not just a few.
And despite Bloomberg’s message to the contrary, the city is doing a really poor job of handling increased homelessness.