Volunteers Needed!

[rokhlita.livejournal.com]

Our Neighbors are being evicted and our community destabilized by the foreclosure crisis!

The Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS) in collaboration with Cambridge & Somerville Legal Services (CASLS) is initiating a post-foreclosure outreach and organizing campaing in Somerville.

We are asking YOU to join us as we go door-to-door to foreclosed properties in Somerville to talk with owners and tenants about their rights and how it may be possible for them to stay in their homes.

WHEN: Sunday, November 1st, 1:00-4:30PM
WHERE: CAAS, 66-70 Union Sq., Somerville
(Located directly above the Precinct Bar. 
Take bus #87 from Davis Sq.)

WHAT: a brief training, some snacks,
lots of door-knocking, and a quick debrief.
PLEASE RSVP TO: Rachel Bedick, 617-623-1392 ext. 141

Comments

Re: I'd like to know more about these cases.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

There is already a nationwide shadow inventory of over half a million homes that have been foreclosed and not auctioned. That is the band aid banks are applying in order to avoid recording their losses. And that band aid is causing difficulties and hzards for people living near those homes. We cannot let that happen to our city. If that means letting people stay in homes they should not have bought, that is a price I am willing to pay. They are already punished: their credit ratings are trashed.