'The party is the firm’s big annual bash. Employees wear Halloween costumes to the office, where they party until around noon, and then return to work, still in costume. I can’t tell you how people dressed for this year’s party, but I can tell you about last year’s.
That’s because a former employee of Steven J. Baum recently sent me snapshots of last year’s party. In an e-mail, she said that she wanted me to see them because they showed an appalling lack of compassion toward the homeowners — invariably poor and down on their luck — that the Baum firm had brought foreclosure proceedings against.'
Showing posts with label Homeless. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homeless. Show all posts
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
American Homeless Tent City
Doug Hardman wakes up every morning with a song in his head—a vague memory of his days on stage.
Inside his tepee in the woods outside Lakewood, NJ, at the homeless Tent City, the roosters wake early and the mornings are already cooler. A musician who lost his Florida home in the housing crisis, Hardman says he floats in and out of Tent City, that he's proud of his kids, and misses the life he no longer has.
He has a lot of company out here.
Tent City made the news recently and while community leader Steven Brigham says the media attention brought in greater donations, it also brought unwanted attention from the local politicians.
After battling with the city for years to have access to the public land here, Brigham found a New Jersey lawyer to represent his case pro bono.
The attorney, Jeff Wild, argued that the homeless population are part of the public and should therefore have access to public lands. Rather than take the case to court, Lakewood City Council settled, and Brigham signed an agreement to put up no more shelters and allow no more than 70 people to stay.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/lakewood-new-jersey-homeless-tent-city-2011-9?op=1#ixzz1Xa7BEOje
Inside his tepee in the woods outside Lakewood, NJ, at the homeless Tent City, the roosters wake early and the mornings are already cooler. A musician who lost his Florida home in the housing crisis, Hardman says he floats in and out of Tent City, that he's proud of his kids, and misses the life he no longer has.
He has a lot of company out here.
Tent City made the news recently and while community leader Steven Brigham says the media attention brought in greater donations, it also brought unwanted attention from the local politicians.
After battling with the city for years to have access to the public land here, Brigham found a New Jersey lawyer to represent his case pro bono.
The attorney, Jeff Wild, argued that the homeless population are part of the public and should therefore have access to public lands. Rather than take the case to court, Lakewood City Council settled, and Brigham signed an agreement to put up no more shelters and allow no more than 70 people to stay.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/lakewood-new-jersey-homeless-tent-city-2011-9?op=1#ixzz1Xa7BEOje
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Homelessness
ith electric walking sticks, flashlights, leather and chains, as well as kicking by six police officers who were part of a police patrol in the town of Fullerton, California.
After this incident, Thomas was sent to a nearby hospital, but arrived in a coma. His face revealed multiple bruises, scrapes and minor cuts.
Thomas was part of a growing army of people in the U.S. which many identify indiscriminately as the homeless, homeless or displaced in a system that degrades human beings every day.
Many years ago, in 1986, in New York, on 42nd Street between First and Second Avenue, east of Manhattan, an elderly man was surviving severe bad weather with his face ulcerated by cold temperatures, near the UN headquarters, He was living on public charity.
This man was the public image and a denunciation before the world and the UN of a persistent problem in the country that self-proclaimed itself to be the big defender of human rights.
Perhaps without knowing it, he was part of the ranks of an army of about 40,000 people like him who had nowhere to live in this metropolis. Tunnels, bridges, subways and questionable run down hostels were his dwelling, in the best of cases.
Almost thirty years later, the presence of the homeless in the United States has increased. The economic crisis, unemployment, drugs, discrimination, war veterans and others without help push millions of Americans to this situation.
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It is said that in the world there are more than 500 million homeless. There it happens easily, and often it is not possible for people to get out, notes various social organizations.
After this incident, Thomas was sent to a nearby hospital, but arrived in a coma. His face revealed multiple bruises, scrapes and minor cuts.
Thomas was part of a growing army of people in the U.S. which many identify indiscriminately as the homeless, homeless or displaced in a system that degrades human beings every day.
Many years ago, in 1986, in New York, on 42nd Street between First and Second Avenue, east of Manhattan, an elderly man was surviving severe bad weather with his face ulcerated by cold temperatures, near the UN headquarters, He was living on public charity.
This man was the public image and a denunciation before the world and the UN of a persistent problem in the country that self-proclaimed itself to be the big defender of human rights.
Perhaps without knowing it, he was part of the ranks of an army of about 40,000 people like him who had nowhere to live in this metropolis. Tunnels, bridges, subways and questionable run down hostels were his dwelling, in the best of cases.
Almost thirty years later, the presence of the homeless in the United States has increased. The economic crisis, unemployment, drugs, discrimination, war veterans and others without help push millions of Americans to this situation.
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It is said that in the world there are more than 500 million homeless. There it happens easily, and often it is not possible for people to get out, notes various social organizations.
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