Pro-Squatting Groups Target Another Home
MADISON, Wis. -- Two local homeless advocacy groups have joined forces on Monday to promote another attempt to encourage a homeless family to squat in a foreclosed property.Leaders with Operation Welcome Home and Take Back the Land both argued at a news conference on Monday that they believe housing is ...
Homeless Families Eying Foreclosed Properties
Madison, WI – Chanting all the way, the group Take Back the Land led the media and police on a parade to the next home they plan to occupy, this time on Turbot Drive on the south side.Their mission is to put homeless families into foreclosed properties, focusing on homes ...
Activists enter foreclosed Madison home, illegally
MADISON, WI -- Affordable housing activists took a public press conference to illegal levels Monday afternoon.It's a movement called Take Back the Land: and it's come to Madison.This time, the group focused on a foreclosed, vacant home that's been unoccupied for a year on the south side of Madison.More than ...
Taking Back Homes From the Banks: Exercising the Human Right to Housing
May has seen an upsurge in local organizations exercising their human rights to housing. Most people recognize that international human rights guarantee all humans a right to housing. With millions of homeless living in our communities and millions of empty foreclosed houses all across our communities, groups have decided to ...
Suspected Squatters Cite Obscure Law To Stay In Home
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- Maria Torres and her family recently decided to move into a vacant lake front home in Deltona even though they didn’t own it. They moved furniture in and even changed the locks at the 3,900 square foot home on Page Court.The sheriff's office began to investigate ...
"Everyday we are creating new memories in the house" said Desiree Wilson holding her young child. "New memories in the neighborhood are being made."But those memories could soon turn to bad ones.The house Wilson now lives in, on the 7200 block of Tempe Drive, was vacant until she moved in ...
Man seals self inside foreclosed residence
STONY RIDGE, Ohio - Through a golf ball-sized hole drilled into a front window, Keith Sadler has a message for banks foreclosing on people like him who fall behind on their mortgage payments. He wants a little help, a little understanding, and a big demand: an end to foreclosures and ...
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This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
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