"Students take to the streets to aid displaced tenants" by Jenifer B. McKim, Globe Staff | October 18, 2008
Hundreds of Boston tenants living in foreclosed properties were told this year by lending institutions that they must leave their homes, joining the ranks of people wounded by the country's growing housing crisis.
Most do as they are told, pack their belongings, and leave, housing advocates say.
But remember, the banks are looking to work with you after getting all that government loot!!!!
HOW MUCH SHIT can you STOMACH, America?!!!
Today, 106 Boston law and college students plan to join community activists to walk the streets of Dorchester, Hyde Park, and South Boston, to advise tenants to stand their ground and stay in their homes. Calling it the "No one leaves campaign," students aim to advise tenants of their legal rights to stay in their homes, even after foreclosure. That will help slow abandonment and blight in vulnerable neighborhoods. They are focusing on the 28 zones in Boston and Chelsea with the most foreclosures.
Why isn't the GOVERNMENT DOING THAT?
What, they WORKING FOR the BANKS? (Answer: Yup)
"Tenants have an amazing amount of rights and a lot of ability to fight these evictions," said Harvard Law School student Nick Hartigan, 25, one of the main organizers. "Banks should do the responsible thing and allow people to stay."
Housing advocates say many tenants don't realize they have a right to a judicial hearing before eviction, even in a foreclosed home. When a property is foreclosed upon, the bank becomes the new landlord and is responsible for maintenance.
"We've seen examples of tenants living with no heat, no water, with rats and roaches," said William Berman, an associate professor at Suffolk University Law School. "These are serious conditions that do give rise to serious legal claims. You have a right to a habitable premises."
And they want a rent payment? FUCK THEM!!!!!!
The students wrote e-mails and visited schools, recruiting coordinators and volunteers from several colleges to canvass the city. Besides Harvard Law, schools include Boston College, Boston University, New England School of Law, Northeastern University, Suffolk University, Tufts University, and Simmons College.
How come the Globe doesn't cover student antiwar activities with such gusto, huh?
Suffolk Law School student Jonathan Heeps, 25, was glad to get involved. "With the economy being the way it is, it seems very unfair to be kicking people out of their homes in the middle of winter," he said. "We need to change the way business is done by the banks or the landlords."
The Chinese Solution to Wall Street's Woes
The Indian Solution to Wall Street's Woes
No Bailout ! "They Will Kill You!
Then let us EAT 'EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The students hope that teaching tenants to fight their evictions will encourage lenders to allow residents to stay as they try to find new owners, maintain the properties themselves, or sell to tenants or former owners.
Tracie Tyler, a 47-year-old administrative assistant fighting her eviction, plans to join the students today. She has been struggling since spring to stay in her one-bedroom, $950-a month Dorchester rental. In August, she declined a $2,000 offer from mortgage holder Fannie Mae and now is waiting for the lender to go to court. Fannie Mae was unable to comment late yesterday.
"We are fighting for the right to pay rent and just to live," Tyler said. "Here we are being penalized in something we have no fault in. . . . We were paying our rent until we could no longer find a landlord."
Good thing that bailout bill passed, huh?
Tyler is energized to have student involvement in what she sees as the important quest of getting the news out. "They are young, they are vibrant, they inspire us older folks," Tyler said. "There are people that are afraid who don't know where to go." --more--"
And WHERE ARE THEY on the WAR?
Or are they out there and the war-promoting Zionist MSM just aren't showing or telling?
