Its inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. If we were to look at Homeless People in america as a single population, you would find many are living alone. But 40 live in family units. Fewer than one in six are chronically homeless, living without shelter is a longterm fact of life. During the last sensis of the homeless, counters found almost 200,000 children and young people. The causes are many, joblessness, rising cost of housing, untreated Substance Abuse and mental illness. The solutions proving tough to achieve. Al jazeeras Courtney Kealy has more. Reporter a homeless man in los angeles refuses orders to come out of his tent. Police struggle officers open fire killing him. It happened in march, in l. A. s skid row. Theres a highest population. More than 2,000 are in camps. Los angeles and county officials announced a plan to send more teams, Substance Abuse experts to l. A. s downtown to reduce the number. New york city announced a similar plan. Its beginning to fee
Mortgages. , if are predatory in that you miss a payment, you are evicted and you lose equity you have built. These wall street firms that bought these foreclosed properties dont want to invest anything in them. They are trying to sell them off and they cant really read them because they are in terrible shape. They cant sell them with Bank Financing because they would not be acceptable for mortgage. They sell them to people with contract for deed or rent to buy terms. It sets people up. Of whate latest chapter i would consider, a predatory lending. Host why write this story now . Are we seeing an increase in these type of loans happening in this time and what is leading to that . Firms like street vision property, harbor properties, they bought up thousands of these units and they are trying to unload them. They are aggressively trying to get people to enter into rent to buy arrangements. Now people are getting to the what, where they realize they overpaid or it has problems and they a
Holding onto 50 in cape may. Winds arent all that strong. They are coming out of the west which actually isnt a bad direction for us for warming up a little bit as the air sinks down out of the mountains it tends to warm and we are looking at a pretty nice bounce back this afternoon. By 7 oclock 41. By 10 oclock, 51. And by noon talmost 60 already and then by 3 oclock we get a high of 63, well above the average highs which are in the mid50s right now. Well be back to the mid50s by 6 oclock but thats a pretty bright nice mild day. We have a beautiful stretch of weather carrying us right into the first part of the weekend before karen the next big change occurs. Ill have details on that coming up. All right david. Lets hit the roads and find out about your commute. Were looking live right now in Mount Laurel Burlington county. I know its a dark ride at this point but this is near the new jersey turnpike at exit four where we had huge problems that lasted most of your morning commute yest
Perkins. Counts to crack down on the Homeless Population in the city. He sently denying shelter to families who cant prove they were once d. C. Residents. This comes on the heels of the mayor opening the doors to immigrants and declaring the district a sanctuary district. Are the doors close for some and open for others . Fox5s Sarah Simmons gets us started. Reporter its a big problem here in the district. Where were standing right now is in campments near the water gait hotel. Welcoming immigrants with open arms she wants to be able to turn away some homeless families looking for shelter here in the district. The mayor says immigrants will have to prove residency just like anybody else. Whether regardless of their immigration status would have to demonstrate that theyre a d. C. Resident we will work with the council to determine the best ways to do that. Rolled in school . Do they have utilities . Do they have a lease . When it comes to providing shelter for the Homeless Population, i
Perkins. Counts to crack down on the Homeless Population in the city. He sently denying shelter to families who cant prove they were once d. C. Residents. This comes on the heels of the mayor opening the doors to immigrants and declaring the district a sanctuary district. Are the doors close for some and open for others . Fox5s Sarah Simmons gets us started. Reporter its a big problem here in the district. Where were standing right now is in campments near the water gait hotel. Welcoming immigrants with open arms she wants to be able to turn away some homeless families looking for shelter here in the district. The mayor says immigrants will have to prove residency just like anybody else. Whether regardless of their immigration status would have to demonstrate that theyre a d. C. Resident we will work with the council to determine the best ways to do that. Rolled in school . Do they have utilities . Do they have a lease . When it comes to providing shelter for the Homeless Population, i