Keyword: Foreclosures
USA, Effort Takes Shape to Support Families Facing Foreclosure
Jonathan Westin, an Acorn organizer, comforted Denise Parker, whose house was being foreclosed on, after she spoke at an Acorn training session in Brooklyn.
By FERNANDA SANTOS Published: February 17, 2009 As resistance to foreclosure evictions grows among homeowners, community leaders and some law enforcement officials, a broad civil disobedience campaign is starting in New York and other cities to support families who refuse orders to vacate their homes.
SWAT Team executes eviction; 7 arrested in Rochester, NY eviction defense
The city of Rochester brought shock and awe into a residential community as they sent 25 police cars, including the Rochester SWAT team, to evict the Lennon-Griffin family- including a grandmother and 7 children- from a single family home.
Rochester, Cathy Lennon Takes Back Her Home After Being Evicted
Grandmother now occupying home with help from Take Back the Land- Rochester
Rochester, NY- Monday May 9, at 11:30am Catherine Lennon has publicly announced at a press conference that she has returned to her Rochester, NY home from which she and her family were evicted on March 28.
US Anti-Foreclosure Programs Not Enough - Watchdog
Government programs to fight the U.S. home foreclosure crisis look increasingly inadequate and should be expanded, a congressional watchdog said in a report. With a foreclosure filing occurring every 13 seconds, the US is mired in a housing slump that is destroying billions of dollars in property values and threatening to choke off the economy's recovery from a stubborn recession.
Detroit homes sell for $1 amid mortgage and car industry crisis
Fallen leaves blow past an empty home in Detroit. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters, 2010)
Houses on sale for a few dollars are something of an urban legend in the US on the back of the mortgage crisis that drove millions of people from their homes. But in Detroit it is no myth.
One in five houses now stand empty in the city that launched the automobile age, forged America's middle-class and blessed the world with Motown.