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In the Midwestern U. S., one could build a modest home for $ 100,000. If Apple, Exxon or individual billionaires were to build and prudently give away new $ 100,000 home in impoverished areas in urban and rural areas, for every billion they could build 10,000 new, modest and beautiful homes.

I am somewhat aware of potential problems and abuses, but one can dream.

I believe that lovingly prudent giving could really improve many peoples lives, especially the impoverished children.

Can one imagine if the Churches, Mosques, Synagogues, and Temples got involved.

One can really change the world with His love.

Go easy on the idea, please.

Thank you!
 
Pax Christi!

Gets my vote!

A lot of homes means a lot of construction work and property taxes to pay for schools…

God bless.
 
Jim_Baur said:
In the Midwestern U. S., one could build a modest home for $ 100,000. If Apple, Exxon or individual billionaires were to build and prudently give away new $ 100,000 home in impoverished areas in urban and rural areas, for every billion they could build 10,000 new, modest and beautiful homes.

I am somewhat aware of potential problems and abuses, but one can dream.

I believe that lovingly prudent giving could really improve many peoples lives, especially the impoverished children.

Can one imagine if the Churches, Mosques, Synagogues, and Temples got involved.

One can really change the world with His love.

Go easy on the idea, please.

Thank you!
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You can buy a house right now in Detroit for 1 dollar.

I’m not kidding.

theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/30/despite-astonishing-1-price-tag-this-detroit-family-home-has-been-on-the-market-for-519-days/

Any homeless person can collect a dollar right?

10k homes? With how many millions of homeless? That’s not going to make much of a dent.

Why does a homeless person deserve a brand new house when the rest of us scrimping, saving and breaking our backs to get new homes? That doesn’t sound very just.

Neither does using the tax code to force those we judge to have it easy to pay for those we judge to have it hard. - that sounds like the sin of pride.

Didn’t the Auschwitz Concentration Camp have a sign out front that said “For the Greater Good”?
 
svid2 said:
A lot of homes means a lot of construction work and property taxes to pay for schools…
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Homeless people don’t have any money. How are they going to pay property taxes?

And if they don’t pay their property taxes, can the state seize their houses and throw them on the street?

It’s what our government does to the rest of us…
 
The arguments about giving to people who can’t fulfill the financial responsibilities of owning a home is a valid one. I was a homeowner for 20 years and could no longer handle the upkeep and taxes.

It is important to remember that some homeless are in a downward spiral and need more assistance with maintenance of life, health, career, and finances. Others could use the boost and be able to sustain a new home on their own.

A good program would involve discerning and evaluating a person’s ability to be helped or hindered by being given a home.

I have often thought that if I ran a multi-million dollar corporation, I would create a program that would help people before they even fall into that hole. The process of failing financially is like a snowball effect; unless one has help, the climbing out gets more complicated. And not everyone has family and friends to catch us as we fall. A good program would look at all of the picture before offering the person a house.

Homelessness can be as simple as a person without a home, or it could be someone with a multitude of problems who has no home.

A supervised shelter, structured like an apartment, might be a better start, especially if counseling and career support were a part of the program. This could begin the process of learning the extent of a person’s homelessness.
 
I am the OP.

I know the dream, or whatever one wishes to call the idea, is not just.

It would be a loved filled justice to build honest poor people, the children are innocent, nice, but simple homes.

I wouldn’t want the government to do it–they could have done it a long time ago. It is the people, if they love with Jesus Christ’s love, that can build the homes.

Ten thousand home is much, but Apple is sitting on more than 100 billion dollars. Also, Gates and Buffett are sitting on another 100 plus billion dollars. If corporate or private citizens do it, they could build many, many homes for the honestly poor.

There are poor in the rural and urban areas. I wish them all a spiritual and financial blessing.

As Mother Teresa taught, we prove God exists by sharing His love with one another.
 
For private people of corporations to build free housing for honestly poor people is could be a loving action, and this goes way beyond justice.

Furthermore, if a person build gives away $ 100,000 lovingly, it is an act of charity. It is not an act of injustice to those to whom get nothing.
 
Tzimisce said:
You can buy a house right now in Detroit for 1 dollar.

Any homeless person can collect a dollar right?
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It isn’t that easy, as the sale price is only part of the cost of buying a home.

While a home might be listed for $1 or $100, Hakim said in reality buyers end up paying quite a lot more. Costs associated with city inspections, title-processing, property taxes and other fees can raise the total price of a bargain home to the low thousands. Such homes may also require extensive reconstruction, new plumbing, electrical rewiring and other work that adds more to the final tab.
huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/detroit-real-estate-market-deal-housing_n_2719125.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003#slide=2114730

And, honestly, that $1 house in the photo looks as if it might fall down if major renovation isn’t done soon.
 
Jim_Baur said:
In the Midwestern U. S., one could build a modest home for $ 100,000. If Apple, Exxon or individual billionaires were to build and prudently give away new $ 100,000 home in impoverished areas in urban and rural areas, for every billion they could build 10,000 new, modest and beautiful homes.

I am somewhat aware of potential problems and abuses, but one can dream.

I believe that lovingly prudent giving could really improve many peoples lives, especially the impoverished children.

Can one imagine if the Churches, Mosques, Synagogues, and Temples got involved.

One can really change the world with His love.

Go easy on the idea, please.

Thank you!
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Great Idea…Jim 👍

But why expect others (Apple, Exxon and rich people) to do all the work for you?

I’ll bet that if you put up your life savings and began organizing and recruiting other folks who would pledge their own money…soon you would have HALF of what it would cost to build your
10,000 homes. Now at this point I’m sure Apple, Exxon and a dozen billionaires would be glad to match your funds for such a project.
 
A list of reasons not to help one’s fellow man:
Tzimisce said:
You can buy a house right now in Detroit for 1 dollar.

I’m not kidding.

theblaze.com/stories/2013…-for-519-days/

Any homeless person can collect a dollar right?
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  1. Charity is bad, because the only ones who need help are the ones that are too lazy to move to Detroit.
10k homes? With how many millions of homeless? That’s not going to make much of a dent.
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  1. Charity is bad, because you can’t single-handedly solve the problem.
Why does a homeless person deserve a brand new house when the rest of us scrimping, saving and breaking our backs to get new homes? That doesn’t sound very just.
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  1. Charity is bad, because I’m envious.
Neither does using the tax code to force those we judge to have it easy to pay for those we judge to have it hard. - that sounds like the sin of pride.
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  1. Charity is bad, because… taxes (?) (The OP mentioned nothing of this.)
Didn’t the Auschwitz Concentration Camp have a sign out front that said “For the Greater Good”?
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  1. And of course, the classic: charity is bad, because… Nazi’s.
 
Coatimundi

The quote you mentioned is interesting.

THANKS!!!

As Jesus told us, we inherit eternal life. He gives us His love which is eternal life. We cannot make it.
 
I would love to add this: Catholic Social Justice is filled with love. In other words, it is love that must rule even justice and all of our thoughts, deeds, and all actions.

And I know that the Catholic Church has always provided loving help to those that need hospitals, orphanages, schools, homes, food and clothing-- the works of LOVE or mercy.

BLESSINGS!!!
 
Jim_Baur said:
I would love to add this: Catholic Social Justice is filled with love. In other words, it is love that must rule even justice and all of our thoughts, deeds, and all actions.

And I know that the Catholic Church has always provided loving help to those that need hospitals, orphanages, schools, homes, food and clothing-- the works of LOVE or mercy.

BLESSINGS!!!
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Jim,

If we are here to help others, what, exactly, are the others here for?
 
The blind man that got healed in Sunday’s Gospel, he was there to show the power and glory of God. His poverty was not caused by his sin.

Mother Teresa said: it our love that proves God’s existence.

There is a clear theological principle: that God is so good He can bring good from evil, but He does it through our hands.

God allows evil so that we can have the beautiful joy of causing the suffering to be healed.

I do, I think, agree with you that the spiritual works of mercy are much more important the the bodily works of mercy. I believe that we need to feed the sinners Jesus’ food.

Jesus said His food is to do the will of His Father. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, billionaires are really sick. They may need to be encouraged to do loving actions that can change bad to good.

I mean this, did this make sense.

Couldn’t it be a loving act to put a poor child in a good school and good neighbor? It will be better, in my opinion, if it were a good Catholic school.

That is the main thing I am saying.

One last point, I have working in Catholic institutions for thirty years. When we help people, and we do it a great deal, we check to see if they are in actual need of help. If a billionaire came to the rescue, I am confident they would do a good job of checking to make sure people really needed help.
 
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