Millions Of Americans Will Soon be In Default As Payments And Evictions Come Into Play After Pandemic Jonathan Baird and his wife, Nichole, say they’ve had to decide between making their car payment and buying food since she lost her job in the pandemic. His mortgage and auto lenders told him he didn’t qualify for […]
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Housing Vultures Today Pt 2
The Housing Vultures The Vultures. Barrack wasn’t the only one. Across the Sunbelt—from California to Florida—investors had the same idea. In Las Vegas, Phoenix, and California’s Inland Empire, the prices of millions of starter homes (those under two thousand square feet) had dropped by more than half since their 2006 peak. Private equity firms snapped […]
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2008 Housing Vultures At It Again
The Housing Vultures In an alternate reality, the one progressives wanted, the government wouldn’t have bailed out the banks during the 2008 crash. When mortgage-backed securities began catching flame like newspaper under logs, the government would have prioritized struggling homeowners instead. It would have created a corporation to buy back the distressed mortgages and then […]
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Hispanic Coronavirus Pt 2
Why so many Latinos are getting coronavirus Pt II “There’s a history for this with public health with tuberculosis,” he said. “If people were not able to go back home, they got put up in a hotel. A lot of this ongoing community spread over the last month could have been prevented by better public […]
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Hispanic Cause To Coronavirus
Crowded housing and essential jobs: Why so many Latinos are getting coronavirus Latinos, who make up about 10 percent of the population in the District, Maryland and Virginia, make up about a third of the coronavirus cases in the region, according to an analysis of jurisdictions that track the race and ethnicity of patients with […]
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Pt II Covid-19 Success in Nursing Homes
Some Nursing Homes Escaped Covid-19 “Here’s What They Did Right” Pt II Early Birds So what helped the SFCJL fare better than many of its counterparts? It’s likely a combination of early action and luck. The facility was one of the first in California to start screening visitors before they entered the premises. They stocked […]
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Nursing Home Success in Covid-19
Some Nursing Homes Escaped Covid-19—Here’s What They Did Right In mid-March, as San Francisco mayor London Breed issued a citywide stay-at-home order, Peggy Cmiel started getting prepared. Cmiel is the director of clinical operations at the San Francisco Center for Jewish Living, or SFCJL, a 9-acre senior housing complex in the Excelsior neighborhood that includes […]
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Pt 2 Gamble on Science
The Blue State That Gambled on an Early Reopening “Those rural state population should realize that each of their cases in the Conovirus crisis is different and should be handled completely from a scientific perspective” As China was paralyzed by the virus in early March and nursing home residents in Kirkland, Washington, died with Covid-19 […]
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A Gamble Made Using Science
The Blue State That Gambled on an Early Reopening “Those rural state population should realize that each of their cases in the Conovirus crisis is different and should be handled completely from a scientific perspective” On April 20, Colorado’s coronavirus curve was still on an upward trajectory, with some 10,000 cumulative cases reported and nearly […]
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Pt 4 Amputation Epidemic
The Black American Amputation Epidemic Pt IV “This story represents a view of how our population in poverty areas of the south are being decimated with removal of limbs to take care of diabetes disease instead of finding solutions to the problem. Some information provided could cause a sickening feeling to some but graphic dialogue […]