Creeps keep a creeping in HPP!!!

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Right now there are plenty of houses sitting empty in HPP with for rent signs on them. Excess supply usually means lower prices. Rents have dropped all over Puna, but especially in neighborhoods like HPP which were overbuilt with expensive spec homes. I think statistics will show that a lot of the burglaries are crimes of opportunity done by young males in their teens and early 20s. This population often isn't paying rent, they live with their Mom or other family, so the cost of the neighborhood isn't that big of a factor for them. Plus Puna tends to have really mixed subdivisions, there can easily be a run down unpermitted shack right next to a fancy $500,000 house on almost any street in Puna.

Carol