Local Pennsylvania authorities are struggling to address a worsening homelessness and squatting problem that has persisted since 1979, ranging from drug dens to indoor campfire cooking.
From so-called drug dens to indoor campfire cooking, local Pennsylvania authorities are working to mitigate a homelessness and squatting problem they claim has been getting worse since 1979.
A lot of homes were left behind in that migration, forcing resident numbers down from 18,000 to 9,800 today. While the fire department would like to tear down the remaining abandoned homes, the city has run into two major hurdles: deceased owners and “Couple of years ago when the foreclosures were really hitting hard, bank foreclosures would happen and the banks were not legally obligated, currently, to transfer that property into the bank’s name,” Frye explained. “So they keep the property in the previous owner’s name unless they sell it and, of course, will transfer it to the new owner.
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