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Originally Posted by babylonDon
We as a nation, are big fans of judgment and retribution. We really should be focusing more on actual justice. We seem to get caught up in finding a place to aim our anger, than actually attempting to fix situations.
But identifying the problem is as far as I've come. I don't have a lot of solutions.
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Justice is a buzzword, it doesn't mean anything. Here's justice, I had this guy when I was working in HUD, his landlord was charging him $400 p/m for a rat infested shithole in providence, that didn't even have a bathroom. He had to share it with another family living in the house-converted- into-apts, and that is being generous. I had to breath through my mouth the whole time I was out there. SO we file the paperwork for habitability and health code violations. Demanding the landlord fumigate, and install proper facilities that the health dept requires for multifamily dwellings, get the building up to code. Ok so rather than do that, at the hearing he shows that the guy who came to us was illegal. Rather than pursue the real issue of taking it to a slumlord, panel makes some calls, guy disappears, and doesn't show up to the hearing that next week. Case gets dismissed. Nothing happens to the slumlord. We tried to bring an action against him for other violations but we couldn't get any of the tenants to come forward. They were all illegal...good old USA...they were afraid of being deported...
