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CHICAGO (CBS) — Housing activists are knocking on doors over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend in an attempt to keep homeowners in foreclosure from being evicted.
Activists say they’re also keeping an eye out for abandoned properties that can be occupied instead of being left to rot.
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Volunteers are going door-to-door in distressed neighborhoods, directing homeowners to legal resources that can delay them from being evicted.
The volunteers carry lists of homeowners in danger of foreclosure. They say their goal is to direct homeowners to legal and financial resources that can keep them from getting evicted.
Volunteers on Sunday focused on the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side, but they said they intended to canvass the entire city.
6 Comments
Are these IDIOTS, I mean activists aware that some homeowners are not paying their mortgages on purpose? Y es, imagine that…they are willfully not paying their home mortgage so they can live MORTGAGE FREE and RENT FREE and then delay the foreclosure process for YEARS.
These activists should be at the gas stations protesting the price of fuel today. These activists should be camped out at BP AMOCO, SHELL, SUNOCO, CITGO. These activists need to pull their heads out of the dark and do something useful.
January 16, 2012 at 4:06 pm
These “poor and helpless” are simply following the State of Illinois: don’t pay your bills for 6 months, then borrow money to pay those bills, don’t re-pay the loan, then get another loan to pay off the first loan, then don’t pay….
I agree, Centurion. These myopic morons who want to help should get their heads out of the rear ends of blacks, and look ahead…
January 16, 2012 at 5:53 pm
These “poor and helpless” are simply following the State of Illinois: don’t pay your bills for 6 months, then borrow money to pay those bills, don’t re-pay the loan, then get another loan to pay off the first loan, then don’t pay….
I agree, Centurion. These myopic morons who want to help should get their heads out of the rear ends of blacks, and look ahead…DO IT
January 16, 2012 at 5:54 pm
Most are blacks and browns who don’t want to pay.
January 16, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Don’t most Blacks live in Section 8 Housing paid for by the taxes of hardworking Whites?
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January 28, 2012 at 3:56 am