{"id":1487013,"date":"2022-05-21T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487013"},"modified":"2022-05-21T19:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T23:00:24","slug":"homeless-shelter-built-by-extreme-makeover-home-edition-shuts-down-after-vagrants-take-advantage-of-charity-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/homeless-shelter-built-by-extreme-makeover-home-edition-shuts-down-after-vagrants-take-advantage-of-charity-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Shelter Built By \u2018Extreme Makeover: Home Edition\u2019 Shuts Down After Vagrants Take Advantage Of Charity: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhomeless-shelter-built-by-extreme-makeover-home-edition-shuts-down-after-vagrants-take-advantage-of-charity-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487013&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Untitled-design-43.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An Albuquerque, New Mexico, homeless shelter that was built by the team from ABC\u2019s \u201cExtreme Makeover: Home Edition\u201d shuttered its doors after those who ran it were taken advantage of by the very individuals they intended to help, but as homelessness rises in The Duke City, a local media outlet recently shone a spotlight on that failed charity.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, \u201cExtreme Makeover\u201d transformed the lives of the Martinez family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, by building them a massive house, as well as a huge homeless shelter to help their mission started by the family\u2019s patriarch, Gerald. Gerald died in 2012 from cancer, but his wife Liesa recently told local media that even before he became sick, he had thoughts about shutting down his charity\u2019s doors due to the behavior of some of the homeless people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the people that we helped the most were the ones that became the most vicious,\u201d Liesa, whose last name is now Reece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmtw.com\/article\/home-featured-on-extreme-home-makeover-14-years-ago-can-no-longer-serve-its-original-purpose\/39999039\">told<\/a> a local ABC affiliate in the city. \u201cThey became entitled that we owed them something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family was nominated for the hit reality show by somebody from their community who knew of their charity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone from a church here in town nominated us; they found out some of the work we were doing,\u201d Reece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koat.com\/article\/albuquerque-city-council-addresses-homelessness\/40015752\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin a week, the show built the family a new home and a homeless shelter in the middle of one of the toughest blocks in the city,\u201d the ABC affiliate explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore he died, even Gerald said this isn\u2019t working,\u201d Reece added. \u201cWe\u2019re being taken advantage of. Where we\u2019re enabling too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She shut down the homeless shelter not long after her husband passed away, but now she said that the neighborhood where the home is located is \u201cthe worst it\u2019s ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reece, who uses her home for wedding venues, told the media outlet that she would still like to help solve the city\u2019s vagrancy issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething needs to be done. And I want to be a part of this something. Whatever\u2019s going on, it\u2019s not working,\u201d Reece explained.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the city of Albuquerque passed scene amendments that increased the city\u2019s budget for homelessness and emergency housing by more than 100%.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the city\u2019s solution will be the establishment of what are essentially tent cities on vacant dirt lots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe budget also addresses the increase of homeless camps on our streets,\u201d KOAT 7 recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koat.com\/article\/albuquerque-city-council-addresses-homelessness\/40015752\">reported<\/a>. \u201cKeller\u2019s office asked for $750,000 of that money to allow encampments to be set up in empty dirt lots across the city, and that\u2019s a total of more than $7 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city also plans to build housing for the homeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Albuquerque, New Mexico, homeless shelter that was built by the team from ABC\u2019s \u201cExtreme Makeover: Home Edition\u201d shuttered its doors after those who ran it were taken advantage of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1487031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}