tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post115485169423166204..comments2024-01-02T10:55:10.607-06:00Comments on Angry Astronomer: Like insects around a lanternJon Voiseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11550625188837528980noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-1154882139296934322006-08-06T11:35:00.000-05:002006-08-06T11:35:00.000-05:00Real estate has become a very profitable business ...Real estate has become a very profitable business for churches. This is especially true with low income housing and nursing homes for which they recieve enormous HUD funding. The renters, and users, of these properties are generally of the class that may complain to each other, but simply don't understand the system well enough to go to authorities so the properties deteriorate to slums with no one watching while the churches who own them continue to collect from HUD. This is a bad problem in North Carolina. Brenda BowersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-1154878733379420032006-08-06T10:38:00.000-05:002006-08-06T10:38:00.000-05:00South Carolina circumvents this problem by exempti...<A HREF="http://www.scstatehouse.net/code/t12c037.htm" REL="nofollow">South Carolina</A> circumvents this problem by exempting all churches and charitable institutions (and a whole slew of other places) from having to pay property tax. The flipside of this is that they wind up with lots old churches sitting on very expensive land in the downtowns of the cities.mollishkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16056975190057844089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-1154871238392436612006-08-06T08:33:00.000-05:002006-08-06T08:33:00.000-05:00Nice. I grew up in Florissant, and now live in Ma...Nice. I grew up in Florissant, and now live in Maplewood. Nice area around here, now.<BR/><BR/>But you're right, the churches are ubiquitous...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com