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Just a guess (and a rather cynical one): so they could get some money out of the owner. He's the one with the cash, so he's the one to target.

• nathanb 12y ago
  Fair point. Maybe I'm just not good at reading, though...I can't see how the city is benefiting financially from going after Jacquez. The article does suggest the possibility of cronyism -- the city is going after certain property owners to increase the value of properties owned by others who are either bribing city officials or friends of city officials -- but I don't see any legitimate revenue coming into the city because of actions against Jacquez versus going after legitimately vacated properties. In fact, it seems the city would be losing money (having to go to court and potentially pay settlements) by targeting people like him. I don't know anything about anything in either politics and real estate, though.
• Shivetya 12y ago
  no, sadly it reads like a political power play. Someone is the system decided they would use their power in government to fix things and this guy was an easy target. He had some homes, some with problems, but obviously no real means to fight back. See this way to often, people get in office or a position where the public really has little to no real ability to push back. They can do exactly what they did to this guy, take your property or prevent you from using it until you just cannot afford to keep up the fight. If they lose, they will just try later or keep going on someone else. There is no penalty for the majority of abuses by government functionaries, none. People think cops get away with murder, they haven't see jack
  • noir_lord 12y ago
    This pretty much describes how you end up with a Killdozer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA