This to me appears to be a public relations move more than anything else.
New Castle County has halted sheriff’s sales for homeowners delinquent on their property taxes. County Executive Paul Clark said he issued the executive order Wednesday because of recently released statistics from Dover that show Delaware has the third-highest mortgage foreclosure rate in the country.
The move will avert about two sheriff’s sales a month, County Sheriff Trinidad Navarro said. About two or three homes have been sold because of delinquent county taxes each month since 2007, he said. Only 1 percent of property taxes don’t get paid in an average year.
Don’t get me wrong, as Clark says, any little bit of relief helps. But why was wasn’t this the first thing Clark did last year upon talking office. It’s like Clark just discovered we have a foreclosure problem not only in the county, the state and the country. Perhaps he just discovered it because he has a primary opponent now.