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GehlLady11 months, 3 weeks ago
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This is organized theft. Period. As reidgator said, it sounds noble and pragmatic, but there's nothing noble about theft.
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I clicked through to Natureboys' link. The quote below is taken from an article in Mother Jones. "innovate" a way for utilities? That means they are stealing. Who pays, in the end, for theft of utilities? Everyone else that legally pays their bills.
"Prosper means that if the place checks out, she and her colleagues from Take Back the Land, a local group that advocates for affordable housing, will break in, change the locks, paint and clean, innovate a way to connect water and electricity, and then move a homeless family into the house. The criminal laws they'll violate in the process range from trespassing to breaking and entering (even burglary, if the police get ambitious), which requires the organization to keep a pro bono lawyer on standby."
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