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Paranoidexboyfriend t1_j8b7joh wrote

Those people want someone to pour thousands upon thousands of dollars into updating the houses to make them safe and livable, but then to rent or sell those houses out at or below cost so the people that already live there can afford it. Which of course no one would do that.

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the_real_xuth t1_j8b3rhb wrote

Just for clarity, there's a lot to be said for just acting as if you own the property and depending on the details, there's a good chance you'll never have an issue in your lifetime (when I was looking at homes recently, one that I was seriously considering had much of its fenced in yard and paved driveway on city property and it had been that way for at least several decades with no reason to believe that that the situation would change any time in coming decades). However PA state law doesn't allow actual adverse possession (with transfer of title at the end of the process) with municipally owned property.

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DannyLameJokes t1_j8b0wdq wrote

I’m sure you can find other articles. One of the entities doing this was disguising themselves as a community housing non-profit. The city didn’t seem to mind residents being forced out of their homes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-24/how-pittsburgh-s-house-flippers-get-buyers-to-sell

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