BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 10/21/13
As JPMorgan Chase reaches a record $13 billion settlement with the Justice Department over its role in the lead-up to the foreclosure crisis, it remains unclear whether this settlement will keep people like Jaymie Kelly in their homes.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 10/08/13
On Oct. 8, 150 neighbors and community supporters successfully prevented the scheduled eviction of Jaymie Kelly, a Powderhorn community homeowner who has lived in her home for 30 years.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 7/24/13
75 community members turned back 30 sheriffs who were trying to evict people from the Ceballos home, July 24.
BY David Hungerford | Irvington, NJ | 7/17/13
A municipal hearing on foreclosure was held here, July 10. The main emphasis was placed where it belongs: on the testimony of distressed homeowners themselves.
BY David Hungerford | Irvington, NJ | 3/17/13
The Coalition to Save Our Homes held Save Public Schools Night here on March 11.
BY staff | St. Paul, MN | 3/14/13
40 residents and community supporters from the Foreclosure and Eviction Free Zone marched on Wells Fargo with the boards used to illegally board up an occupied home.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 3/10/13
Jessica English, a single mother of four who was homelessness, moved into an abandoned Wells Fargo-owned home in south Minneapolis last month.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 2/28/13
13 people were peacefully arrested Feb. 27 as they marched on Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, demanding the bank turn over vacant homes to community control and calling for fairer banking practices.
BY staff | St. Paul, MN | 2/04/13
A Ramsey County jury found Anthony Newby, executive director of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, not guilty on assault charges here Feb. 4.
BY David Hungerford | Jersey City, NJ | 1/26/13
Organized labor took a direct hand in the struggle against predatory lending here, on Jan. 24, at a Bank of America branch in the Harborside Financial Center.
