PUSH People United To Secure Housing

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Fixing Housing First

Our Economic Problems began with housing, the solution should begin with housing.
Premise One
Each home is a microcosm of the economy as a whole. With each purchase, many things happen after the acquisition transaction. Owners hire service people and purchase items for their new home, which begins a ripple effect from the retail down to manufacturing and raw materials. Property acquisition has both bottom-up and trickle-down economic effects.

Premise Two
The current decline in value in real estate has been exacerbated by the inventory of foreclosures in the hands of many lending institutions that have received TARP money. The decline is enough to affect every aspect of surrounding areas.

Premise Three
Vacant properties are accidents and crime waiting to happen. Vandalism is rampant and many properties are unlivable. Vacant homes are causing property devaluing on their surrounding areas.

Premise Four
There is, and will continue to be, a burgeoning need for housing for the elderly and the disabled especially in light of the huge baby boom generation

Premise Five
Unprecedented economic issues require rapid relief in a demonstrative way on the housing level. What we’re experiencing now requires thinking outside the box with a “can do” attitude.

Push is a non profit organization that will organize teams of people across the country to renovate vacant homes that have been turned over to the government and then to PUSH, for the greater good. We will need total federal funding but we envision the returns to be exponentially greater
- by reducing our dependence on foreign oil by retrofitting these properties with energy efficient systems and using alternativie fuels
- by helping the environment and getting housing ready for a huge population coming up the pike, the parents of baby boomers and the boomers themselves.
- by Retrofitting these properties with sustainable materials that we would purchase locally
- making them handicapped accessible
- retrofitting them with fuel efficient systems and appliances, and use alternative fuels wherever possible
- by stimulating local economies by purchasing locally
- by putting people back to work so that these people will will again become consumers

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Mission

Our mission is to mobilize quickly and be “shovel ready” with inventory and personnel to proceed with local, state and federal agencies on board with the understanding of the apparent urgency and to provide solutions that will benefit local, state, and federal government and the economy as a whole.

We will create standards and qualify teams as PUSH teams and providers as PUSH providers.

We are ready to serve either as a pilot program for one area or to mobilize the entire network of teams to implement our vision to create timely solutions for our most pressing problems.

My response to some questions from a friend who has read over this page..

The Tarp bailout is getting voted on next week in the house. In exchange for this bailout, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that the banks, who were at least complicit in this debacle, to give something in return for saving their butts...not all, but a small percentage of their non performing assets. Bankers don't want to own real estate but they want the bailout.The government has purchased some of the mortgage backed securities so it's unclear in some cases who really owns the houses. But the banks are selling them because they service the accounts even after the asset has been sold on the third party market. This is not business as usual in any sector of the American economy. We have not been here before. They're selling houses for pennies on the dollar and it's destroying the wealth of millions of Americans because when a foreclosure hits a neighborhood, it effects the entire neighborhood. There are some areas so hard hit, they look like war zones. Imagine how many have lost their life savings? .

PUSH is the parent, or umbrella organization. There are definitely things that have to be worked out as far as which organizations get involved. But it's not brain surgery. As far as upkeep, that's all part of the PUSH army of people being put back to work getting this housing ready for the onslaught of the elderly and disabled coming up the pike at break-neck speed. And retrofitting the homes with sustainable materials and alternative fuels to help reduce dependence on foreign oil is going to please everyone and help consumer confidence. The supply of homes on the market needs to shrink. The government is going to be throwing lots of money away as a stimulus. Some of it might as well be used dealing with the effects of the problem, the foreclosures themselves. Have you ever seen some of the footage of the Americans during the WPA? They put 100 men to work where they only needed 20. This is just the beginning of an idea. And it's just so crazy, it might work! If this is going to work at all, it has to be done very quickly... before the snowball gets any bigger. The stock market went down over 300 points today. I want your gut feeling, as a friend.. because I respect your business sense and I know you know some powerful people. Do you think it could work if these details can be worked out?

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ph: 203-984-2169
fax: 203-682-4330
alt: 203-454-3026
Mary@Pushtosecurehousing.org

PUSH People United To Secure Housing

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Our Economic Problems began with housing, the solution should begin with housing.