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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2015 11:06:47 GMT -5
The City of Detroit began shutting off water access to residents behind on payments Tuesday, with thousands at risk of losing access.
According to the Detroit Free Press, 64,769 delinquent residential customers owe the city’s water department a combined $48.9 million. fusion.net/story/141170/detroit-is-starting-to-shut-off-peoples-water-again/
I can't imagine summer with no running water. Yuk.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2015 11:18:42 GMT -5
I can't imagine scaling water payments based on income.
Did the non payers already wipe out all assistance programs? $48.9M seems like a huge amount for the water company to allow going into arrears.
Are the non payers people without jobs, or they just got in the habit of not having to pay & not getting shut off?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2015 11:21:22 GMT -5
"Are the non payers people without jobs, or they just got in the habit of not having to pay & not getting shut off?"
Probably both
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 1, 2015 14:17:46 GMT -5
Pay your bill=get your water.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jun 1, 2015 17:59:24 GMT -5
The City of Detroit began shutting off water access to residents behind on payments Tuesday, with thousands at risk of losing access.
According to the Detroit Free Press, 64,769 delinquent residential customers owe the city’s water department a combined $48.9 million. fusion.net/story/141170/detroit-is-starting-to-shut-off-peoples-water-again/
I can't imagine summer with no running water. Yuk.
I can't imagine not paying my bills and being surprised that they shut my water off
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 1, 2015 18:00:24 GMT -5
That's because you don't have "the world owes me a living" mentality.
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Post by mmhmm on Jun 1, 2015 18:05:44 GMT -5
I can't imagine scaling water payments based on income. Did the non payers already wipe out all assistance programs? $48.9M seems like a huge amount for the water company to allow going into arrears. Are the non payers people without jobs, or they just got in the habit of not having to pay & not getting shut off? I feel pretty comfortable with the postulation that we're dealing with some of each. I'm sure there are those who could pay but choose not to, just as I'm sure there are those who simply cannot pay. I also don't know what sort of assistance programs are available in Detroit - that city is in lousy financial shape all the way around, I'm afraid. I've never been in a position to be unable to pay my utility bills and having one, or all of those utilities shut off. I can't imagine what that would be like.
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Post by Opti on Jun 1, 2015 19:05:05 GMT -5
I'm sure there are many stories behind the scenes of what's going on. A couple of interesting links.
Nicole Hill, who was featured in a June Los Angeles Times story about the shut-offs, is among those who can't pay. She spoke to the deputy director of the water department asking why her bill was $6,000 when she had not been living in her apartment very long.
www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-detroit-water-shut-offs-20140826-story.html
The Detroit Water and Sewage Department (DWSD) last year shut off water service to residents with unpaid bills in an effort to collect more than $119 million in delinquent payments from more than 150,000 customers. Like in Baltimore, Detroit’s commercial customers represent more than half of the unpaid water dues.
(Baltimore) Less than half of the $40 million in delinquent water bills are from residents. Unpaid bills from 369 businesses account for more than $15 million and government offices and nonprofits account for another $10 million of the unpaid water bills, according to an investigation by the Baltimore Sun.
rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/05/21/baltimore-detroit-criminalizing-low-income-people-shutting-water/
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