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POPSBanks Do Not Make Good Neighbors Ross Wallace, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, turned in his check for $500 and waited on the auction floor in full dress uniform for a chance to buy a Detroit house on the cheap. Wallace, 27, said he did not want to leave his fiancee and two children with a mortgage before shipping out to Iraq later this year. “I still have student loans and I’m trying to be responsible. I don’t want to leave debt,” he said. Wallace waited for the auction to roll around to Detroit’s Boston-Edison district, a once stately area that was home to boxing legend Joe Louis and Motown founder Berry Gordy. But he was quickly outbid. An unidentified investor at the front of the room who had scooped up several dozen properties took the home Wallace wanted for about $15,000. “Why am I competing against a bank?” he said later. “It would be common sense to have a separate process for people who want to move back to the city or it’s going to stay empty.”
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POPSFacebook Usernames Hits 500,000 in 15 mins Yesterday at 9.01pm (June 12th) Facebook opened it’s doors to allow users to create a vanity URL i.e. www.facebook.com/garygraye In the first 15 minutes of allowing users to claim their own vanity URL Facebook had more than they 500,000 registrations.
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POPSLearning From Slums "We should not dismiss them because they look ugly, they look messy," says Cruz, a professor at UC San Diego. "They have sophisticated, participatory practices, a light way of occupying the land. Because people are trying to survive, creativity flourishes."
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POPSOhio Rep. Kaptur Advises Homeowners Facing Foreclosure To Stay
Sandusky lawyer Dan McGookle, who is representing a homeowner trying to have a predatory loan rescinded, said mortgage firms may not be able to prove they complied with truth-in-lending laws and other state and federal procedures. "We have strong reason to believe that a majority of the mortgage loans made in the last 10 years are defective - unenforceable for various reasons," Mr. McGookle said. Ironically, Mr. Moody agreed that people threatened with foreclosure should try to work out a solution and should stay in the home as long as possible. Cathleen Tillman, director of the Lucas County Sheriff's Departmen, also said people should remain in the homes until the deed has been transferred, and not to abandon a home that is still listed in their name. "The foreclosure takes a long time," she said. More than 4,000 foreclosure actions were filed in 2008 in Lucas County, and the sheriff's department carried out 85 foreclosure-related evictions.
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POPSSquatters in Berlin Blog about squatters in Berlin and how the German goverment help the squatters to promote their art with economical and social meassures
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POPSArtists' secret shopping mall pad Eight artists lived a dream life, hidden away at a mall in a small room. How often we all think of running away and hiding out in a mall? Well, these artists came as close as it gets to living without an address while enjoying the comforts of a home away from home. We often see people living on the sidewalk, or in derelict buildings. Well, by going one step further, the artists modified their street life experience by adding the comforts of a home without the responsibilities of renting or owning a home. It certainly adds to the saying of 'living like a starving artist.'
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POPSDilbert on Cubicle Squatters Sigh, I think I'm getting over my infatuation with being a drone in a cube. Was management all that bad? Hmmmm. The sad thing is, at my current company, the people with offices are the ones who need them the least. They're never in them! If you rate an office, you're stuck in meetings all day. No thank you.
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