One dude's action does not the whole Democrat party make.......
I have some thoughts. You say you are a friend of this guy, right? Well I started looking into this Dome Village.......
This appears to be a rather large piece of property. Hayes does not own it, why? He was being charged 2,500 a month for a very nice parcel of prime property from the owner. This, from a private landowner's perspective, in prime-real-estate SoCal, this appears to be ridiculously low. From the looks of the pictures, 18,000 is probably more reasonable for this parcel.
Now Hayes accepts donations, he has a store where he sells Dome Village products, he's been paying $2500 month rent on property that is probably worth 10 times that, and he hasn't had money to buy this property prior to now? What's he doing with the donations, etc.? His overhead seems really low.......
Don't get me wrong, I admire Hayes, but something about this story doesn't feel right.....like your link is not the whole truth......