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Foreclosure Crisis

Home Owner Protests Foreclosure in Queens, NY

Lauren Cannon | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosures, Eyesandears, Foreclosure Crisis, Home Defenders ACORN, Foreclosures NY, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures Queens, Home Foreclosures NYC, Politics News

This story was reported and written by Lauren Cannon. She is one of the HuffPost citizen journalists helping cover the on the ground effects of the fo...

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Lines in the Sand: The Subtle Significance of a Presidential Visit

Randall Amster | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Obama Speech, Barack Obama Arizona, Public Infrastructure, President Obama, Foreclosure, Arizona, Arizona Obama, Housing Crisis, Politics News
Randall Amster

Obama came to Arizona to announce a relief plan. Simply by his presence, he's shown that he's aware of our plight, and that he won't sit idly by as the legislature from foreclosures on our future.

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ACORN Launches Home Defenders Campaign To Fight Foreclosures

Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Acorn, Obama Foreclosure Plan, Foreclosure Rate, Home Defenders Campaign, Inez Batista, Barack Obama, Home Foreclosures, Charles Jackson, Millicent Hill, Home Defenders, Foreclosure, Warren Evans, ACORN Home Defenders, Obama Acorn, Thomas Dart, Acorn Housing, Home Foreclosure, Politics News

Yesterday marked the launch of ACORN's Home Defenders Campaign, which seeks to use civil disobedience techniques, complemented by mass communication (...

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Obama's Visit to Arizona Brings Hope to Foreclosure Alley

Dawn Teo | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Foreclosure Crisis, President Barack Obama, Foreclosure, Timothy Geithner, Economic Recovery, Sheila Bair, Barack Obama, Shaun Donovan, Politics News
Dawn Teo

In Mesa, where home values have dropped by nearly 45 percent, it is not hard to find people whose mortgage is in trouble.

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Your Voices: Obama's Speech Just Miles From Home Of HuffPost Reader Facing Foreclosure

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Queen Creek, Huffposters, Mortgage, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, President Obama, Foreclosure Relief, Forclosure Relief, Obama, Foreclosure Watch, Dispatches From the Displaced, Matthew Palevsky Connie, Housing Crisis, Barack Obama, Home Foreclosure, Offthebus, Politics News

With 10,000 Americans going into foreclosure everyday, the housing crisis has produced millions of heartbreaking stories across the country. Earlier t...

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Time To Put Main Street Over Wall Street -- Obama's Foreclosure Proposal

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosures, Mike Shea, Foreclosure Crisis, Acorn, President Obama, Bertha Lewis, Foreclosure, ACORN Home Defenders, Acorn Housing, Home Foreclosures, Housing Crisis, Politics News
Bertha Lewis

Our foreclosure campaign will continue until the crisis has passed. We will continue to work to save individual families who are caught up in the mess through the ACORN Home Defenders.

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President Obama: Sign New Emancipation Proclamation to Free Us From Debt Slavery and Free-up the Economy

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rescue Plan, Treasury Department, Credit Crisis, President Obama, Banks, Fico, Economy, Federal Reserve Board, Comptroller of the Currency, Stimulus, Business, Bailout, Housing Crisis, Politics News, Paulson, Credit Card Industry, Credit Scores, Housing, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure Crisis, Just Price Solutions, Bonuses, Politics, Economic Crisis, Breaking News, Bignews, Mortgage Crisis, Reform, Wealth, Banking Industry, Freddie Mac, Ponzi Scheme, Emancipation Proclamation, Debt Slavery, Republicans, Fanie Mae, Tax Cuts, Politics News
Ronald B. Robinson

Mr. President, help us create "a more perfect Union" from the "bottom-up." You can be the Lincoln of our times and free us from the greed and "top-down" bondage that has brought us here.

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Sam Stein

Brave New Films Tackles The Foreclosure Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Brave New Films Foreclosure, Brave New Films, Films Housing Market, Bnf, Politics News

Hoping to harness the power of viral videos outside of elections, Brave New Films is up today with the first of a series of documentaries raising awar...

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Blaming the Victims: Heroic American Consumers

Ann Pettifor | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, Foreclosure Crisis, Unemployment, Credit, Borrowing Money, Food Stamps, Wages, Easy Money, Great Depression 2.0, Consumption, Consumer Spending, Financial Crisis, Business News
Ann Pettifor

High levels of debt and consumption were not the result of millions of individual decisions by consumers. They were the result of a deliberate economic 'regime change' in the 1970s.

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Autos, Houses, Gimmicks

Harry Moroz | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Cars, Foreclosure Crisis, Dodge Minivan, Debt, Stimulus, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Houses, Senate, Tax Cuts, Economy, Business News
Harry Moroz

One of the three tenets of stimulus is timeliness. But should we really sacrifice longer term effectiveness for timely "affect"?

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Change FICO Credit Scoring to Stimulate Economy and Address Housing and Banking Crisis

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, President Obama, Economic Crisis, Federal Reserve Board, Economy, Fico, Ponzi Scheme, Credit Crisis, Stimulus, Banking Industry, Mortgage Crisis, Politics, Wealth, Credit Card Industry, Tax Cuts, Credit Scores, Banks, Republicans, Bonuses, Comptroller of the Currency, Business, Financial Crisis, Bignews, Paulson, Housing, Reform, Foreclosure Crisis, Housing Crisis, Rescue Plan, Bailout, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Ronald B. Robinson

Republicans are proposing a 4% home mortgage Ponzi scheme that's the modern day version of "40 acres and a mule." It's every bit the false promise that dashed the hopes of ex-slaves after the Civil War.

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Republicans' 4% Mortgage "Stimulus" Is Latest Ponzi Scheme

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fha, Depression, Melvin Oliver, Sec, Mitch McConnell, Housing, New Deal, Social Security, Black Wealth White Wealth, Stimulus, Black, Republican First Principles, Mortgage Crisis, Redlining, Eugencis, Wealth, Predatory Lending, African American, Loans, Ponzi Scheme, Construction, Subprime, Bernie Madoff, Rush Limbaugh, Obama, Media, Politics, Bailout, Economy, Race, White House, Financial Crisis, Bignews, Paulson, Foreclosure Crisis, Credit Score, Great Depression, Credit Rating Agencies, Freddie Mac, 4% Morgage, Fanie Mae, Politics News
Ronald B. Robinson

Does the Republican ploy to provide 4% home mortgages to boost the economy sound too good to be true? It is. Buyer Beware!

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Refusing To Be Evicted -- Keeping Foreclosure Victims In Their Homes

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosure, Foreclosure Crisis, Bertha Lewis, ACORN Home Defenders, Acorn, Economic Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Housing Crisis, Politics News
Bertha Lewis

By showing that communities are refusing to participate in their own decimation, we will force elected officials to finally shift their emphasis from bailing out Wall Street to bailing out Main Street.

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The Real Shame of Wall Street Bonuses

Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Corporate Accountability, Wall Street Bonuses, Wall Street Still Gave Out Bonuses, Recession Bonuses, Handing Out Bonuses, Economy, Financial Crisis, Business News
Mark Winston Griffith

Obama's calling Wall Street bonuses "shameful" and citing Wall Street's actions as the "height of irresponsibility" may signal a significant shift in the government's tone towards corporate culture.

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ACORN: The Bogeyman in the GOP Closet

Bertha Lewis | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Foreclosure, Bertha Lewis, Economic Stimulus Package, Partisanship, Job Creation, Acorn, Foreclosure Crisis, Housing Crisis, Stimulus Package, Politics News
Bertha Lewis

Right-wing media outlets are pick up the ridiculous talking points from the GOP leadership attacking Obama's stimulus package by claiming that it gives ACORN a $4.19 billion bailout. Puh-lease, people!

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Stop Foreclosures Now! ACORN's Anti-Foreclosure Campaign Escalates to Include Civil Disobedience

Bertha Lewis | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bertha Lewis, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosure, Economic Stimulus Package, Acorn, Housing Crisis, Politics News
Bertha Lewis

Given the urgency of the crisis and the lack of attention paid to the families bearing the brunt of the economic meltdown, ACORN is taking its foreclosure campaign to a new level of militancy.

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Daley To Use Federal Money To Rehab Foreclosed Houses

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 02.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Mayor Daley, Housing Economic Recovery Act, Chicago Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Chicago Foreclosure Rehab, Chicago News

Warning that the foreclosure crisis puts Chicago's tax base and "entire blocks" at risk, Mayor Daley on Thursday outlined plans to use $55 million in ...

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Homeownership and Asset-Building Beyond the Bush Ownership Society

Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Bush Ownership Society, Homeowners, Economy, Subprime Mortgages Crisis, Homeownership, Business News
Mark Winston Griffith

We need to stop creating public policies that transmit the message that evolved stakeholderhood and more wholesome values come from owning a home.

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Tenants Receive Overdue Foreclosure Love

Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 01.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Tenants, Freddie Mac, Economy, Fannie Mae, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Business News
Mark Winston Griffith

Tenants who live in homes facing foreclosure are among the most invisible victims of the foreclosure crisis.

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Foreclosures Create Opportunity For Squatters

Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 01.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosures Squatters, Chicago Foreclosures, Squatters Foreclosed Homes, Foreclosure Crisis, Economy, Mortgage Crisis, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Chicago News

Sometimes one person's misfortune can become another's opportunity. That's what's happened in a foreclosed building in Chicago. The owner abandoned th...

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Durbin And Dart Decry Foreclosure 'Chaos'

NBC 5 | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Durbin Dart Foreclosures, Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Housing Crisis, Tom Dart, Dick Durbin, Chicago News

Will help for homeowners facing foreclosure come too late? That is the fear of lawmakers meeting on Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Sen. Dick Durbin says ...

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Cook County Sheriff To Appear At Senate Foreclosure Hearing

ABC 7 | Posted 12.19.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Washington Housing Crisis Meeting Dart, Housing Crisis, Dart Durbin Foreclosure Hearing, Tom Dart, Dick Durbin, Chicago News

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin will chair a hearing in Washington Wednesday on the foreclosure crisis. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart will be among those...

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Ideas for Obama

Curtis Black | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Valerie Jarrett, Arne Duncan, Housing, Green Jobs, President Obama, Jobs, Transportation, Immigration Reform, Broadband, Foreclosure Crisis, Bailout, Rahm Emanuel, School Reform, Media Reform, Social Services, Sprawl, Health Care, Campaign Finance Reform, Community Organizers, Chicago News
Curtis Black

President-elect Barack Obama now faces tremendous challenges, and local advocates -- many of whom have worked with Obama over the years -- offer a range of ideas on how to move forward.

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Governor Wants Home Foreclosure Moratorium

Associated Press | Posted 11.30.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Blagojevich Foreclosure, Rod Blagojevich, Illinois Foreclosures, Foreclosure Moratorium, Housing Crisis, Chicago Home Foreclosures, Chicago News

Gov. Rod Blagojevich wants state lawmakers to do something to help prevent home foreclosures. Blagojevich says he's pushing for a new law that would ...

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Foreclosure Court Adds Judges To Cope With Increased Caseload

Chicago Tribune | Azam Ahmed | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Foreclosure Court, Chicago Judges, Chicago Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Cook County Foreclosures, Chicago News

Just off the elevators on the 28th floor of the Daley Center, a scene of arresting beauty unfolds. Sunlight glints off Lake Michigan, high-definition ...

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