The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
foreclosure crisis
Follow:
-
Chicago Renters Back "ROOTS" As Solution to Affordable Housing
Renters Organizing Ourselves to Stay, an affordable housing program helping working families and long-time residents remain in Chicago, has already saved 18 properties and 41 units for affordable housing.
-
U.S. Cities May Be Taking Banks to Court For the Foreclosure Crisis
From L.A. to Miami to Providence, families who lost their homes weren’t the only ones hurt by the foreclosure crisis – so there’s an argument to be made that they shouldn’t be the only ones who can go after the lenders.
-
Too Rigged to Fail: The Homeowner Hampster Wheel of Mortgage Fraud
If the government won’t break up the banks, then we the people need to break up with the banks. The only way they will feel our pain is if people move their money out of them – then demand accountability and jail time for the elite financial criminals.
-
“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street
Not only is Adam McKay's movie a good way to understand how the big banks screwed millions of Americans out of their homes, savings, and jobs, then got bailed out by taxpayers – but a lesson in why they’re on the way to doing all this again.
-
Winner Take All: "99 Homes" and the Foreclosure Crisis that Still Reeks of Injustice
The film takes a refreshing, reverse look at the real estate and foreclosure debacle – without the sexy Wall Street glitz and gloss.
-
The People's Lawyer: Fighting Against Foreclosure Fraud and Courts' Abuse of Power
"I think this economic collapse was carefully calculated as a means to redistribute wealth from the middle class to the wealthy."
-
Thirst For Justice: A Small Business Homeowner Fights Wells Fargo Over Foreclosure Fraud
"It’s staggering that our justice system has so failed the American people on every level – homeowners and families are being stripped of their only investment, the one most important thing, literally the place you live."
-
Big Banks Broke America: How to Achieve The Ultimate Revenge Against Them
Since looting all of us for a generous bailout, you'd have thought they'd all lie low. Here's what they did instead.
-
No Punishment for Criminal Executives As Bank Settlements Leave Consumers Hanging
The colossal dollar figures amount to a smokescreen as the real costs to banks get muddled in tax deductions, unclear directives and accounting loopholes – while Americans receive pennies for wrongful foreclosures.
-
Show Me the America That Has Forgotten About Wall Street's Foreclosure Fraud
If we want a healthy society that follows its laws and applies them equally to everyone, we must demand a full investigation and criminal prosecutions for everyone involved in the mortgage backed securities fiasco.
