Sentences with phrase «walls of the abandoned homes»

Partygoers — sometimes up to 100 people — are given Sharpie pens and encouraged to write on and graffiti the walls of the abandoned homes.

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-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

The interior of the «object» of the home, the objects that furnish these homes, the objects that absent people once used: chairs, beds, glasses, guns, medicine bottles, tools, tubas and record players are in the foreground, while reserved, watchful figures seem to be inside the walls that envelop us as we enter someone's long abandoned home.

From gaping holes in the wall and missing appliances to overgrown yards, the housing inventory is getting uglier, some buyers say, as the tally of abandoned homes and foreclosures swells.