Comments on: The people triumph over Lennar http://sfbayview.com/2009/the-people-triumph-over-lennar/ Black liberation news and views Thu, 24 May 2012 19:16:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ann Garrison http://sfbayview.com/2009/the-people-triumph-over-lennar/comment-page-1/#comment-4581 Ann Garrison Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:59:44 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=8494#comment-4581 Just to make sure you didn't miss this. I heard the Board's vote re the RAB yesterday. Unfortunate. I've collected information about Lennar that I've never fully written up, because I can't imagine anyone with any power reading it, or imagine a context in which anyone would care. The City should try to figure out who was responsible for the wave of mortgage foreclosures on the Southeast Side, but that's a big job. I suspect Countrywide, Wells, and Lennar's UAMC mortgage lending wing. And I suspect that a lot of what they were doing was not only unconscionable but also illegal. The people facing foreclosure now need legal help, not more official loan modification fraud. And, obviously, the City shouldn't give prime waterfront real estate to the South Florida based corporation responsible for this. Just to make sure you didn’t miss this.

I heard the Board’s vote re the RAB yesterday. Unfortunate.

I’ve collected information about Lennar that I’ve never fully written up, because I can’t imagine anyone with any power reading it, or imagine a context in which anyone would care.

The City should try to figure out who was responsible for the wave of mortgage foreclosures on the Southeast Side, but that’s a big job. I suspect Countrywide, Wells, and Lennar’s UAMC mortgage lending wing. And I suspect that a lot of what they were doing was not only unconscionable but also illegal. The people facing foreclosure now need legal help, not more official loan modification fraud.

And, obviously, the City shouldn’t give prime waterfront real estate to the South Florida based corporation responsible for this.

]]> By: Monica Davis http://sfbayview.com/2009/the-people-triumph-over-lennar/comment-page-1/#comment-4561 Monica Davis Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:56:50 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=8494#comment-4561 Congratulations@! Mary. Congrats on a job well done and a spine of steel. So many black newspapers will not jump in and do the heavy lifting for fear of losing advertisers and ticking off the big wigs. You didn't worry 'bout tickin' them off--ya'll snatched them bald. Wonderful. You and yours are prime examples of the kind of folk I profiled in my latest book: The Forever DreamThe Forever Dream (book) Print: $24.00 Download: $5.00 The high price of food and the current economic uncertainty around the world are changing the way we view our food distribution system. Food security activists and environmental justice organizations are making unlikely alliances with former opponents. "The enemy of my enemies is my friend" perspective points to a new paradigm in social activism. Congratulations@! Mary. Congrats on a job well done and a spine of steel. So many black newspapers will not jump in and do the heavy lifting for fear of losing advertisers and ticking off the big wigs.
You didn’t worry ’bout tickin’ them off–ya’ll snatched them bald. Wonderful. You and yours are prime examples of the kind of folk I profiled in my latest book:

The Forever DreamThe Forever Dream (book)
Print: $24.00

Download: $5.00

The high price of food and the current economic uncertainty around the world are changing the way we view our food distribution system. Food security activists and environmental justice organizations are making unlikely alliances with former opponents. “The enemy of my enemies is my friend” perspective points to a new paradigm in social activism.

]]> By: Ann Garrison http://sfbayview.com/2009/the-people-triumph-over-lennar/comment-page-1/#comment-4559 Ann Garrison Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:39:27 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=8494#comment-4559 YEAH! I've done plenty of research and writing on Lennar myself, including some for the Bay View, and, even though I also write about the horrifying Congo War, Lennar is the most depressing subject I have ever looked into. My reaction is usually "Ugh. . .this whole story, Lennar's history, culture, and various episodes, is so ugly I can't take it. " No redemption. Glad to see there's finally some, in BVHP. In 2006, I turned up a report that Lennar's earnings had soared in after hours trading, because of its private prison investments, a form of what the business press calls "real estate investment trusts," after Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his plan to start shipping California prisoners out of state, to private prisons, to relieve overcrowding. That news was yanked off the Web five days later because, apparently, Lennar would really rather we didn't know about that particular, very lucrative branch of its business. Private prisons are doing especially well now, as states struggle, close state prisons, and contract out to private prisons who train and pay their employees so poorly that they can incarcerate for less---less money and more prisoner abuse. Lennar should be as well-known as Halliburton or Goldman Sachs, and no doubt would be if we had elected a vice president or president to champion its cause. YEAH! I’ve done plenty of research and writing on Lennar myself, including some for the Bay View, and, even though I also write about the horrifying Congo War, Lennar is the most depressing subject I have ever looked into. My reaction is usually “Ugh. . .this whole story, Lennar’s history, culture, and various episodes, is so ugly I can’t take it. ” No redemption. Glad to see there’s finally some, in BVHP.

In 2006, I turned up a report that Lennar’s earnings had soared in after hours trading, because of its private prison investments, a form of what the business press calls “real estate investment trusts,” after Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his plan to start shipping California prisoners out of state, to private prisons, to relieve overcrowding. That news was yanked off the Web five days later because, apparently, Lennar would really rather we didn’t know about that particular, very lucrative branch of its business.

Private prisons are doing especially well now, as states struggle, close state prisons, and contract out to private prisons who train and pay their employees so poorly that they can incarcerate for less—less money and more prisoner abuse.

Lennar should be as well-known as Halliburton or Goldman Sachs, and no doubt would be if we had elected a vice president or president to champion its cause.

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