Concerns About Minneapolis Long-Range Affordable Housing Plan By Bill Sorem | May 23, 2018 Minneapolis has a revised long-range plan for affordable housing that’s raising lots of questions and concerns from residents.
Housing Redlining: Banks Still Restricting Home Loans In “Non-White” Areas By Sheila Regan | April 15, 2014 A new report shows that from 2009 to2012, people in predominantly non-white Minneapolis neighborhoods such as Near North and Camden were three times more likely to be denied loans – – regardless of what race the person was who applied for the loan. “The lack of access to credit continues to plague communities of color in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area,” says Myron Orfield from the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity. (More…)
Homelessness Occupy Homes Demands Minneapolis Cops Follow Protocols By Sheila Regan | April 7, 2014 Occupy Homes is calling for the Minneapolis Police Department to follow its own foreclosure protest protocol, which requires a number of steps before people can be arrested. The demand came after seven people occupying vacant houses were arrested within 10 days in March.
Housing Thanksgiving Surprise: Jaymie Kelly Gets Help From The Top In Fight To Keep Her Minneapolis Home By Story & Video: Bill Sorem | November 28, 2013 Jaymie Kelly got a surprising answer after she sent an email to President Obama describing her trials with JPMorgan Chase and Freddie Mac. Eight days later she got a call from the Office of the Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency telling her that her case is under review.
Housing Happy Election Day! Pre-Dawn Raid On Candidate’s Home; Occupy Activists Save The Day By admin | November 11, 2013 At 5:00 a.m. on Election Day, 40 Hennepin County Sheriff’s Deputies arrived at Mayoral Candidate Jaymie Kelly’s house in Minneapolis to evict her, smashing doors and breaking windows.
Housing Dead Men Walking: Vampires March Against JPMorgan Chase By Story and Video by Bill Sorem | October 29, 2013 Occupy Homes MN led a march to the Minneapolis U.S. Attorney’s office and the offices of JPMorgan Chase to demand a settlement that keeps people in their homes instead of just providing “blood money” by way of paltry settlement checks to people who wrongly lost their homes.
Housing Occupy Homes Helps Defend Two Minneapolis Families From Foreclosure By admin | August 21, 2013 A hundred or more community members marched Monday on Minneapolis City Hall and Chase Bank to demand fair negotiations for Sergio Ceballos and Jaymie Kelly, two south Minneapolis neighbors fighting foreclosure with the help of Occupy Homes MN.
Housing Macalester Alumni Protest College Crackdown on Students By Jacob Wheeler | June 7, 2013 Macalester alumni are upset over the Saint Paul-based liberal arts college’s crackdown on student activism. The Kicks Well Fargo Off Campus campaign seeks divestment from the bank for its involvement in the housing foreclosure crisis.
Economy/Jobs Push for Anti-Foreclosure Legislation Wins Abbreviated Homeowner “Bill of Rights” By Jacob Wheeler | May 29, 2013 Minnesota homeowner Rose McGee won a year-long struggle with CitiBank to keep her home. Along the way, she became a champion of anti-foreclosure movement, which pushed the state legislature to pass a Homeowner Bill of Rights.
Housing “Kick Wells Fargo Off Campus” Protesters: “We’ve Just Begun to Fight” By Jacob Wheeler | April 26, 2013 Macalester College president Brian Rosenberg once again refused to heed KWOC student demands and divest the Saint Paul-based liberal arts college’s finances from Wells Fargo bank.
Housing I-Pies, Brother Ali Rally Students in Macalester Divestment Action By Jacob Wheeler | April 24, 2013 Hip-hop artist Brother Ali rallied with Macalester college students staging a sit-in to protest the school’s decision not to divest finances from Wells Fargo bank, an alleged instigator of the housing foreclosure crisis.
Economy/Jobs WWJD: What Would Jesus Do About Homeowners’ Rights? By Jacob Wheeler | March 28, 2013 With a wooden cross punctured by nails lying on the snow before them, ISAIAH leaders spoke of the need for homeowner rights, and an end to the bank-driven home foreclosure crisis.
