So I'm going down the highway, on my way to teach class and see a large truck in the drive at 1960. I know I have to go back and see what's happening or it'll be on my mind all through class. The truck is gone, I look in the windows and see more of the way they have been ripping apart the insides, but now the doors are missing, the cabinetry, too. Makes sense, more of the scavenging they have been doing. Next will come the plumbing fixtures and then the copper piping and wiring…

Back home this e-mail:

peter,

did you know that there was a Habitat ReStore truck at

1960 today? i drove by at about 3:30 and it was backed

up to the garage area. didn't see anyone but they

could

have been inside and i had to watch traffic.

laura

I went to the ReStore to confirm that it had indeed been them, going about the store taking pictures of things removed from 1960. Ran into the father of one of my daughter’s classmates: “Here, come here, I want to show you something,” taking him over to a door on display and locking the latch. I pulled my keyring out, put the master key in the lock and opened it. “I’d say that’s my door.”

I talked to the saleswoman when she asked why I was taking so many pictures.

 “Just for inventory,” I said, “But what I’d really like is a picture of that sign, it’s funny.”

Sure. And where did it come from? Oh, it was this place they went over and got some stuff from the other day, that place the guy lost for taxes, and they called it the Wolfman’s home cause it was so weird. Really? The Wolfman, I like that.

To see what it looked like before Destiny-98 made it weird, go to :

http://www.supportbeal.com/Good_Things/Good_things.htm

This ISN'T acceptable so I write letters to Habitat pointing out how "utterly inappropriate" it is for them to be working with people who went to great efforts to drive someone out of their home without any attempt at a good faith settlement. My point was that "Habitat cannot choose to NOT question the sources of donations from real-estate closings... "

None of my letters, either to former President Carter, Jonathan Reckford (the CEO of Habitat for Humanity ), the Detroit director, or the Ann Arbor director have gotten any response.

Sarah Stanton, the local director, at least e-mailed an apology when confronted with a third party  informing  her "I heard a rumor that your folks were stripping out Peter Beal's old place, if true that's so sad", an e-mail that concluded with "For an organization that is chartered to help people get homes this seems so contrary to your mission."