...if you scratch my back, my back will be scratched.

On my drive to work this morning, which seems to be getting longer everyday, I had the radio on, because the CD player in the Subaru only works everyother day. I was listening to a local mix station that promises the best mix of "the 80s 90s and today," when a news blurb came on about how in New York, the empty condos are being occupied by homeless people. The whole jist of the story was that the renters in the apartments next to the condos were outraged because the "homeless people were living better than they were." The condos they are living in have marble floors and open spacious bathrooms (i.e. they are what we call in this neck of the woods "uptown" appartments). Anyway, it seems that the New York City officials are spending thousands of dollars to match up homeless people and place them in the abandoned buildings to live, that way everyone benefits--the homeless people are off the street and the condos are being lived in. I think it sounds like a good plan, I am just shocked (which I shouldn't be) that people are so upset about the homeless people getting off the streets.