{"id":742,"date":"2007-11-10T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=177"},"modified":"2007-11-10T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T15:00:38","slug":"11907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"11\/9\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

My daughter Sarah and I did some volunteer work last night at a nearby “drop-in” center for the ‘Lazarrus’s at the gate (see last entry)’ in our Cleveland neighborhood. \u00a0 These are the poor, the homeless. \u00a0 \u00a0During the night \u00a0I talked with another volunteer, Matt Reitz. \u00a0 Mr. Reitz is the new president of the non-profit Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation. \u00a0 He said a recent thrust of his organization is to start brainstorming about how to help relatively low-income people move toward home ownership. \u00a0 Mr. Reitz told me they are talking about a multi-dimensional approach, with public seminars by real estate agents, credit counselors, financial analysts and the like. \u00a0 In addition, there’s been talk of Neighborhood Tours to give people more insight into what’s available, a look at rennovation techniques on existing homes, etc. \u00a0 Mr. Reitz added that so<\/em> many people these days are sinking money into rent when the money could \u00a0go toward \u00a0developing equity. \u00a0 It is this type of thing that often keeps the poor, poor — \u00a0or at least poorer… \u00a0 As an addendum, I told a newspaper in Champaign, Illinois, that we should expand the concept of “social security.” \u00a0 That is, for instance, we should help as many people as possible move into homeownership so they feel more “secure” in their community. \u00a0 And in that vein, one of the things our administration would propose would be that after, say, seven years, some low-income people would be eligible to draw from some of what they’ve paid into Social Security for small, no-interest home loans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My daughter Sarah and I did some volunteer work last night at a nearby “drop-in” center for the ‘Lazarrus’s at the gate (see last entry)’ in our Cleveland neighborhood. \u00a0 These are the poor, the homeless. \u00a0 \u00a0During the night …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}