Housing

The Fall Of The House Of Detroit

June 23, 2013 Jeffrey Cavanaugh, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Housing, Poverty, Racism

The broken, bankrupt, and bereft city of 2013 was thus a long time in coming – the end product of countless decisions by millions of people, made from corporate boardrooms to middle-class living rooms, to leave the city and its urban poor to fend for themselves. In many respects, it resembles the effect that Hurricane Katrina had on New Orleans in 2005, only in this case it was the cruel logic of globalized market capitalism, racial animosity and subsequent political paralysis played out over many years, instead of one act of God, which caused the cascade of human misery. The lesson here is that when the going gets tough, whether by a storm or changing socioeconomic circumstances, those with the means to get out, do so.

Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Former Employees Say

June 15, 2013 Paul Kiel, www.propublica.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Housing

Bank of America employees regularly lied to homeowners seeking loan modifications, denied their applications for made-up reasons, and were rewarded for sending homeowners to foreclosure, according to sworn statements by former bank employees. The employee statements were filed late last week in federal court in Boston as part of a multi-state class action suit brought on behalf of homeowners who sought to avoid foreclosure through the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program but say they had their cases botched by Bank of America.

New Report on Public Housing: “Communities, Evictions, and Criminal Convictions”

June 14, 2013 Bruce Reilly, www.ficpmovement.wordpress.com Create! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drug Policy, Housing

New Orleans tangles with the most intense incarceration in America, and thus the world. Seemingly innocent programs related to criminal convictions, can take on a primary role in a city such as New Orleans, where one in seven Black men is either in prison, on parole or probation. To fully grasp the community impact of affordable housing barriers in this sphere, one must account for arrest, incarceration, and poverty rates. Particular to civil rights law, one should factor in the proportionality between recognized ethnic and language groups. It is no mystery that in New Orleans, policies that affect people impacted by the criminal justice system (both individuals and families) are disproportionately affecting people of Color- especially African-Americans. The contrasting affect is most glaring when comparing the drug enforcement policies of densely populated, overwhelmingly White, college students. The excuse of “experimentation” has been reserved for a certain segment of young drug users.

Art Aimed to Shame: Activist and Street Artist Team Up

June 11, 2013 Fern Shen, www.batimorebrew.com Resist! Housing

Their joint project, WallHunters: The Slumlord Project, includes 15 murals on Baltimore vacants (to be made this summer by prominent street artists invited by Nether) plus a film about Baltimore’s vacants and the people who live among them (being made by Tarek Turkey and Julia Pitch.) But perhaps the most innovative feature is the set of huge QR codes Nether will be putting on vacant properties in connection with each mural. These will lead the curious, via cell phone, to one of Ott’s fact-filled blog posts. The post will typically include a photo of the particular blighted property, plus the name and address of its owner, any past history of violations, the elected officials who represent the area, their contact information and whatever other details Ott can ferret out.

A Realistic Radical Remaking of the Economy

June 1, 2013 Lyle Jeremy Rubin, www.dissentmagazine.org Educate! Corporatism, Energy, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Government, Housing, Human Rights, Transportation, Worker Rights and Jobs

We are in a “prehistory” of a radical remaking of the economy—not corporate capitalist, state socialist, or welfare-statist. The historian Howard Brick, in Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought, criticized the post-capitalist imaginings of the past century for failing to make clear how and when the segue to the next stage would take place. The merit of economic democracy thinking is that it is pragmatic and realistic. The present system while failing most Americans and in collapse is resilient but there are growing patterns of resistance. How and, when will resistance get us out of the economic corruption of corporate capitalism? Economic democracy is developing a comprehensive alternative that is as theoretically rigorous and practical, with a blueprint for an economic democracy political program.

Government Must Stop Favoring Banks Over Homeowners

May 30, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.truthout.org Create! Finance and the Economy, Housing

The crisis of foreclosure and lost wealth is not over. Every three months, 250,000 new families enter the foreclosure process. According to a May 2013 report of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), more than 13 million homes are still underwater, which increases the risk of foreclosure. This crisis could have been averted through government policy that placed the needs of people, rather than those of the bankers, first. Because that hasn't happened yet, people are coming together and demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) start holding the big banks accountable. The Home Defenders League, a coalition of local groups that are fighting foreclosure, held a series of actions at the DOJ last week.

Three Members of Colorado Foreclosure Resistance Arrested At Department of Justice

May 23, 2013 Colorado Foreclosure Resistance Coalition, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Finance and the Economy, Housing

Three members of Colorado Foreclosure Resistance Coalition, a coalition of Occupy Denver, Move On, Home Defenders League,Occupy Our Homes, and independent volunteer activists, took part in a protest at the Department of Justice in Washington DC this week. Responding to Attorney General Eric Holder's recent claim that big banks and their executives were "too big to jail", activists, most of whom have been foreclosed on, assembled on the steps of the Department of Justice to show that while the bankers that caused the Great Recession have not gone to jail, our government leaders were willing to arrest the homeowners who.....

Jamie Dimon Arrested By Homeland Security

May 22, 2013 Peter J. Reilly, www.forbes.com Resist! Finance and the Economy, Housing

After being arrested by Federal Protective Service yesterday, they were asked for their names. Among the names that the arrested gave were Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase, Brian Moynihan of BOA, John Stumpf of Wells Fargo,Richard Davis of U.S. Bancorp and Lloyd B. Blankfein of Goldman Sachs. Many of those arrested were not veteran activists but ordinary people who feel they have been crushed by the foreclosure crisis. According to Amy Schur of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, there are grandmothers among those arrested and at least four of them are over seventy. The encampment in front of the Justice Department began yesterday afternoon and continues despite arrests.

Homeowner Protests Focus on Corporate Law Firm, Covington & Burling

May 22, 2013 Sarah Anne Hughes, www.dcist.com Resist! Finance and the Economy, Housing

For a third day, homeowners and supporters protesting foreclosures will hold a public demonstration in D.C. And once again, Attorney General Eric Holder, who admitted early this year some banks are too big to prosecute, will be the target. Protesters gathered at Freedom Plaza at 11 a.m. Wednesday to march on Covington & Burling LLP, a law firm where Holder was once a partner. The firm, located at 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, represents or has represented major banks including Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase. A spokesman for the protesters said they plan to take over the building's lobby.

Homeowner Defenders Protest DOJ Failure to Prosecute Big Banks

May 21, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Finance and the Economy, Housing

Yesterday the Home Defenders League organized a protest that began at Freedom Plaza and ended up occupying the Department of Justice, even staying the nights in tents. At the beginning of the day, representatives of the action were on Clearing the FOG radio and UStream explaining their action, why they were doing it and their goals. By the afternoon they were occupying the Department of Justice, even putting up tents and staying the night. Two dozen arrests Monday, a dozen more on Tuesday and a couple of people were tazed this morning.

Peaceful Protester Tasered Outside DOJ

May 21, 2013 Ryan Grimm and Jason Cherkis, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Finance and the Economy, Housing

Carmen Pittman had no intention of becoming an activist, but her bank, the Department of Justice and Occupy Atlanta turned her into one. Shortly before her grandmother died in 2011, the family realized that JPMorgan Chase was preparing to foreclose. HuffPost interviewed her late that year for a story on Occupy Atlanta and found a bewildered and desperate 21-year-old, talking about her childhood home in the past tense. "My every Christmas, my every Thanksgiving, my every birthday, my every dinner was in this house," Pittman said then of a home that had been in her family since 1953. "This was the base home. We could not stay away from this home. This home is my every memory."

Homeless Stand Up for Justice and Respect

May 9, 2013 Staff, www.picturethehomeless.org Resist! Housing

Led by homeless leaders who refuse to stay in shelter, our position is that if you lose your housing and chose to live in public spaces rather than go to shelter your constitutional and human rights should not be abused by the police! We fight to end selective enforcement of Quality of Life regulations (we ask "Whose Quality of Life" is improved by moving homeless people from public spaces?) We fight the lack of legal representation for homeless people advised by legal aid lawyers to plead guilty instead of exercising their right to trial, and forced to return to court over and over if they chose to not plead guilty. We are also working to ensure that homeless New Yorkers right to vote is protected, including in city jails.

Home Defenders Protest ‘Too Big to Jail’ Banks

May 4, 2013 Home Defenders League www.homedefendersleage.org Resist! Housing

Despite calls from groups like Home Defenders League and our allies to mandate widespread loan renegotiation and provide restitution for homeowners cheated by Wall Street banks, the Obama Administration has continued to be content with allowing banks such as Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase to pay small fines and handle reviews of criminal foreclosures internally and without oversight. Worse, the Justice department has failed to respond to calls for holding those responsible for nearly sinking the U.S. economy in 2008 accountable – and to date not one Wall Street banker or executive has been criminally prosecuted for actions related to the financial crisis.

13 Occupy Protesters Arrested In Minneapolis Housing Protest

March 3, 2013 Staff FightBackNews.org Resist! Housing

The march, organized by Occupy Homes MN, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, and allies from faith and labor communities, began at the home of Gayle Lindsey, fighting her foreclosure with Occupy Homes and her neighbors in the Foreclosure and Eviction Free Zone. It proceeded to Jessica English’s reclaimed vacant home, which had been abandoned by Wells Fargo and turned into a drug house.“As a homeless mom, it’s sickening to see all the vacant homes Wells Fargo owns that attract crime in Minneapolis,” Jessica told the crowd. “Wells Fargo abandoned this home, letting it turn into a drug house that brought blight on the community. Now the community has come together to welcome my family home and demand that Wells Fargo turn over vacant homes to community control for affordable housing. We are restoring what Wells Fargo destroyed.”

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