Renters, soldiers feeling foreclosure pain

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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The day before her husband was deployed to the Middle East by the U.S. Air Force, Marketa Johnson got word that her family would be evicted from their rented home.

It did not matter that the Johnsons had never missed a rent payment and had signed a two-year lease. The property owner was facing foreclosure and so Johnson simply packed her bags.

But last month, when she got another eviction notice and was ordered to leave her new home, she decided to fight.

"We military are good tenants," said Johnson whose husband, Derrick, is an Air Force pilot. "We always take care of the property. We were never late, never. I don't see a reason that we should not stay there."

The U.S. housing crisis that has caused a spike in foreclosures has meant not only anguish for delinquent mortgage borrowers but heartache for renters in good standing.

Reuters

Subcrime just keep going and going....

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1. Well, many soldiers get a housing allowance and healthcare for their families...

this is one case where they have it easier than their cohorts in the civilian world at similar salaries.

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2. Is this different from the civilian world?

Military Food Stamp Program

Under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 2001, beginning in May 2001, qualifying servicemembers can receive up to $500 a month with the new family subsistence supplemental allowance (FSSA).

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3. Innocent victims of a housing crisis...

And I bet the conservatives are going to come up with some cold hearted excuse as to why evicted tenants "got their just deserts." The old blame-the-victims-of-misfortune game will be played once again.