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Families lose homes after Florida cities turbocharge code enforcement foreclosures

The lawsuits have been filed predominantly in heavily Black neighborhoods, which property owners see as part of a mission to gentrify and redevelop their neighborhoods by pushing them out. Legal experts said that the nature of Weidner’s financial arrangement raises serious concerns that profit motive could dictate which cases — and how many — the cities pursue. “I think it’s unconscionable that the cities and the counties are participating in this,” said Danaya Wright, a law professor at the University of Florida who also sits on her local code enforcement board. Weidner first began doing this kind of work in his native St. Petersburg in 2015 and has filed more than 425 lawsuits on behalf of the city since then. Overall, just under half of the lawsuits he has filed throughout Florida since 2015 have resulted in foreclosures, with the homes being sold at auction to a new owner. While the amount recovered in each of the cases is typically modest — the houses have sold for an average of $26,000 when they’ve gone to auction — the fees have added up.

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Taking away one of our community to pass on generational wealth is the biggest crime here. Just wait until Palm Beach, Broward and Dade start doing this because it's next. Then Duval but I guarantee it won't reach the Big Bend.
 
The geechie people been dealing with this for decades.

Then you go to Hilton head and it’s all white owner and at times treat you like you don’t belong.
 
DOS_patos said:
The geechie people been dealing with this for decades.

Then you go to Hilton head and it’s all white owner and at times treat you like you don’t belong.
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The sad part about that situation is that they have Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas who could advocate on their behalf to stop this. Hell even Charlemagne the God claims to be Geechie yet he don't care either.
 
DOS_patos said:
They can pick us apart because of lack of community and lack of communication
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More importantly lack of resources and money to those resources.

My investment property in Florida went through foreclosure during the recession of 2008. I had no tenant and got laid off.

but I had the money for lawyers who helped me stop the process while advising me with government programs most Floridians are not aware of.

I'm a fourth generation homeowner so I also had my parents and grandparents as well. That's why wealth building should be emphasized in our community.
 
Lamarquise said:
More importantly lack of resources and money to those resources.

My investment property in Florida went through foreclosure during the recession of 2008. I had no tenant and got laid off.

but I had the money for lawyers who helped me stop the process while advising me with government programs most Floridians are not aware of.

I'm a fourth generation homeowner so I also had my parents and grandparents as well. That's why wealth building should be emphasized in our community.
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Yet it’s not. Still got people saying home ownership is bad and capitalism is even worse.

My people are lucky enough to keep their land in the south but a lot aren’t lucky.
From when I know it wasn’t about resource in the beginning per se for the geechie people . It was more about lack of knowledge of the system.
When people died their properties was split up some kinda way. And when black families migrated north they didn’t care about the land. So when joe white calls and says I’ll give you $15k for this land. Most took it because they never saw the land nor did they care since they wasn’t giving up anything but getting money.
But they too land and sell it back to us or rent it to us.

But we laugh all the way back to poverty and celebrate being in the mud.
 
DOS_patos said:



Please watch this one all the way thru

Then tell me how you feel afterwards.

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It just confused what I already knew. There is a systemic racism against us even when we try to establish our own

Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps is misleading advice when everyone around you keeps cutting the strings
 
Lamarquise said:
It just confused what I already knew. There is a systemic racism against us even when we try to establish our own

Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps is misleading advice when everyone around you keeps cutting the strings
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Dont mean we stop or get frustrated out of trying.

Just gotta stick together and tie a different way.
If we share knowledge and resources we will be good. They are predators who prey on the weak because they know we are divided and have a “ it’s not me, THEY lost THEIR land” attitude…it makes it easy for them.
 
DOS_patos said:
Dont mean we stop or get frustrated out of trying.

Just gotta stick together and tie a different way.
If we share knowledge and resources we will be good. They are predators who prey on the weak because they know we are divided and have a “ it’s not me, THEY lost THEIR land” attitude…it makes it easy for them.
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This also means that we can make the government accountable for their role in our oppression.

In those videos, I saw issues that should have been covered with current laws like federal protection, climate change, and farming subsidies for example.

We as Black people of precivil war ancestry need to be protected group just like Native Americans. Too many other groups are piggybacking off of us and it's time we get benefits exclusively for us
 
orgen said:
Red State politics
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These are blue cities though.

We got to get out this mindset of being partisan and more focused on policy

For example policy change to all felons their right to vote happened in the same red state. That happens when you vote for your best interest and not political party
 
I looked up the fines & Florida is very heavy handed on fining people over silly stuff , it's just another tax on the people
 
Lamarquise said:
That's what happens when you don't have a state tax. Revenue has to come from somewhere.
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That's the reason why the other slogan for Las Vegas is "Come on Vacation, Leave on Probation". Nevada has no income tax, so they gotta make it up elsewhere and since Vegas is the biggest draw, they use everything, including the police, to generate revenue for the state.
 
Lamarquise said:
That's what happens when you don't have a state tax. Revenue has to come from somewhere.
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Other states do it to , all it takes is a city council willing to raise revenue by writing traffic tickets or sending someone out to do parking enforcement in residential areas . Most states do this to just raise the general fund
 
konceptjones said:
That's the reason why the other slogan for Las Vegas is "Come on Vacation, Leave on Probation". Nevada has no income tax, so they gotta make it up elsewhere and since Vegas is the biggest draw, they use everything, including the police, to generate revenue for the state.
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Vegas is Nevada's Disney World. They dominate the state but that's a collection of many businesses so I can imagine the influence casinos have in legislation is just as huge.

But if it wasn't for Disney, Florida would be like any other southern state.
 
orgen said:
Other states do it to , all it takes is a city council willing to raise revenue by writing traffic tickets or sending someone out to do parking enforcement in residential areas . Most states do this to just raise the general fund
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But it hits different in Florida where every county outside of the major cities concentrate on fines and fees.

Before I moved to Florida I never been handcuffed and detained like when I lived there. The school to prison pipeline was how alot of rednecks fed their families.

But that's not the case with the decrease of crime. It's something that fear mongering conservatives fail to mention. They have closed so many prisons to the point even harsher laws on crime didn't have an effect.
 
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