re: Squatters take over 1200 homes in Atlanta,open illegal strip clubs and terrorize neighbors

And a generation who doesn't want to have to work to put that roof over their heads !

Two points. First, it isn’t surprising to see this in Atlanta. The changes in that city over the past 30 years make you shake your head. Second, while it varies from place to place, most people don’t realize just how hard it can be to get someone evicted these days. In some places these proceedings can drag on for well over a year before they are resolved. This is a large part of what is driving it. We used to prosecute these people and evictions would be accomplished with the quickness.

quote:

---

The Median home value in the United States is now $450,000. The medium family income is 74500. See an incongruity?

Efficiency apartments in low crime areas are going for over $1500.

We have an entire generation of people who cannot afford a roof over their head.

---

Looks ^^^^ like the WEF/Davos crowd plan is coming together nicely, you will own nothing and like it.

Illegal votes need an address……

quote:

---

The squatters ran the clandestine strip club, held noisy parties and even organized car races in the street, ruining the neighborhood for others, according to local reports.

“They would get live horses. One day they had live horses,” one neighbor told Atlanta station WSB-TV TV2.

---

Beside allowing breaking and entering, are squatters also allowed to commit other crimes?

I own my home, but I’m not sure I would be allowed to operate a strip club and horse races here.

The dude was living in her home while she was deployed according to the article.

Meaning he was living there for a while.

I don't know the exact laws, but I have seen this be an issue in other cities as well, in that a squatter somehow has rights.

Don't agree that they should, at all, but it's not the same as someone kicking your door in while you're home.

quote:

---

So you don't see a problem with the feds creating these bubbles and making housing basically unaffordable. Why, your one of those "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" prick. If you live long enough they will screw you too, bootstrap boy.

---

Atlanta blew up in the 90s and with the Olympics. It cost a lot to live in cities with a shite load of people, supply demand.

It was already expensive to live in Atlanta. Most people my age I know live outside of the city.

quote:

---

I’ve been spending almost half my years the past 6 years in ATL as my woman is there. And ATLANTA is not a shithole, anyone saying that is ignorant at best.

---

bullshite! Atlanta is full of coddled thugs.

Black city leaders and a black police force allow black thugs to run wild.

This is a house occupied by a squatter.



You can't get away from these fricking animals in Atlanta.

quote:

---

The Median home value in the United States is now $450,000. The medium family income is 74500...We have an entire generation of people who cannot afford a roof over their head.

---

Nah.

First of all, your stats are incomplete.

"According to data from the National Association of Realtors, the median price for an existing home — one that's already standing, not new construction — was $387,600 as of November 2023."

People don't have to buy new construction. I get that $387,600 is still a lot, but it's not $450,000.

Secondly, I'm not sure how much median income tells you. For example, this year I will sell my business and retire. I will do so a multi-millionaire, but going forward I will have no ordinary income. Zero. I'll be at the bottom of your income chart. I won't even be able to draw Social Security for another 12 years. My wife will keep working b/c her job provides our health insurance, but our household income will be below the median you posted. Yet we could afford to buy a multi-million dollar home if we wanted to.

There are a lot of people my age and older that fit into that category.

quote:

---

Efficiency apartments in low crime areas are going for over $1500.

---

Um, o.k. Where you live, maybe.

I live in Alabama. State-wide, the median rent for an entire house (not just an efficiency apartment) is $1,395 with 6,387 available.

In Mississippi it's almost identical at $1,400 even with 2,204 available.

In Arkansas it's $1,350 with 3,036 available.

In New York City, however, the median for an apartment is $3,400, with over 15,000 available.

You get the point. It matters greatly where you live.

A much better statistic is rate of home ownership.

According to the US Census Bureau, in 1970, 64% of Americans owned a home.

Again according to the Census Bureau, in 2023 that number was up to almost 66%.

In fact, since 1965 the rate of home ownership has deviated from a 4 percentage point range only twice. Once in 2005 when it went up to over 69% and once in 2020 when it briefly spiked up to 68%. Other than that it has stayed between 63% and 67% for almost 60 years.

Similarly, you have to go back to 1985 to find fewer rental vacancies than 2023. In fact, between 1967 and 1985 there were fewer rental vacancies than there are now, but barely. We're talking a maximum of 1 1/2 percent. Other than that, we've got the lowest rate of rental vacancies since 1956.

So there are not a lot of unrented properties and we're still owning homes within the same range that we've been owning them for roughly 60 years.

So much for this: "We have an entire generation of people who cannot afford a roof over their head."

You're listening to the media. They like to report that the sky is falling.

quote:

---

A Lt. Col living in a half-million dollar home?

---

Going off memory, it’s a black female, so yes it’s definitely Biden’s army.