New Mexico Houses the Homeless
I've been saying it for a while now... we're all on this planet together. I post it almost daily on social media but never really expected it to be so true lately. I'm talking about Afghanistan and all the human beings -- people who simply want to live peaceful lives-- leaving the country to find refuge in the US. However you feel about it politically, I don't want to go there...I want to talk with kindness and compassion. New Mexico is preparing to welcome many of these refugees within its borders. Where can we safely house them? One thing we could do is buy old abandoned mobile homes, on properties, and fix them up for the refugees. The new tenants can help fix up other homes for future tenants. Simple...I'm sure it's not... Where I live, there are lots of these properties. My first question is how do we go about acquiring them? Are they privately owned, or does the government own them because taxes weren't paid? There are some pretty nice o