{"id":12234,"date":"2015-01-30T03:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/ezekielharris\/?p=70"},"modified":"2015-01-30T03:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T03:53:00","slug":"because-someone-lives-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/because-someone-lives-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Because someone lives here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a month ago I had no idea that a \u201churricane without water\u201d was coming to Detroit. I didn&#8217;t now 1 in 6 Detroiters would be affected by the tax foreclosure crisis. Meaning nearly 100,000 people are in danger of losing their homes, where they were raised, where they learned how to cook, or the place where laughter and love poured through during family functions. \u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/becausesomeoneliveshere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-15-at-11.14.50-PM.png\" alt=\"1 in 6 Detroit Homes are At Risk\" \/> This is happening for a plethora of reasons but I\u2019ll pass on running through the list because at the end of the day what really matters is that young and old, black, white, purple or green everyone in the city is affected. You may not know that your neighbor, cousin, or best friend may be going through this but it is happening and if things get really bad 62,000 more vacant homes (37,000 potentially occupied) may be added to the list of problems the city is facing. Then the issues of gentrification and \u201cnew\u201d vs \u201cold\u201d Detroit will be set aflame\u00a0when these houses are listed for $500. \u00a0 Everyone should care what happens to these homes\u2026because someone lives here. http:\/\/vimeo.com\/118054015 Find out more here: www.becausesomeoneliveshere.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a month ago I had no idea that a \u201churricane without water\u201d was coming to Detroit. I didn&#8217;t now 1 in 6 Detroiters would be affected by the tax foreclosure crisis. Meaning nearly 100,000 people are in danger of losing their homes, where they were raised, where they learned how to cook, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":31238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}