The Koch-backed group Americans For Prosperity admitted to posting fake eviction notices on numerous Detroit homes Monday in order to “startle people” about a bridge project that the group opposes.
Bearing the words “Eviction Notice” in large type, the bogus notices told homeowners their properties could be taken by the Michigan Department of Transportation to make way for the New International Trade Crossing bridge project. The NITC is the subject of debate in Lansing, and Americans for Prosperity is lobbying heavily against it.
Now we SAW this baby coming across miles away, and this will not be the last. Just yesterday, Fannie said MERS poses a significant risk…no DOUBT!
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Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. “illegally prosecuted” non-judicial foreclosures in Michigan and owes more than $100 million to people who lost their homes, lawyers for three homeowners said in a lawsuit.
The homeowners said Merscorp Inc.’s MERS, which runs an electronic registry of mortgages, used Michigan’s so-called foreclosure by advertisement process illegally and “misappropriated” their homes. Any foreclosures by MERS using this process in Michigan should be voided, they said in their complaint filed in federal court in Detroit.
You mean to tell me you cannot place homeless families in these?? Lets get Habitat for Humanity in here…this doesn’t smell right!
Clergy, Wayne County Partner To Demolish Homes
Sarah Cwiek (2010-05-11)
One of the homes targeted for demolition in Detroit Sarah Cwiek/Michigan Radio
DETROIT, MI (MICHIGAN RADIO) – Wayne County and some of Detroit’s biggest religious institutions are partnering in a push to demolish vacant homes.
The plan is to use more than $4 million in Federal money to knock down 450 blighted properties in 45 days.
12 clergy members worked with the County to identify “target areas” for demolition near their churches. A number of the leaders plan to use that land to develop housing projects.
Bishop Edgar Vann of Second Ebenezer Church says that’s appropriate because churches are rooted in the community.
“You don’t see other developers coming in here to in any great numbers to try to develop communities,” Vann says. “We’re the ones, along with the partnerships that we have, who are taking this on because we have the people in our hearts.”
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