Help Homeowners Level the Playing Field Help Homeowners Level the Playing Field
Industry insiders reveal how predatory lending made it more profitable to run a mortgage shop than to sell drugs.
Mar 5, 2009 / Brave New Films
Ten Things You Can Do to Stay in Your Home Ten Things You Can Do to Stay in Your Home
Advice and resources for preventing or fighting foreclosure.
Mar 5, 2009 / The Nation
Resisting Foreclosure Resisting Foreclosure
This week in Baltimore, the first protester in a civil disobedience campaign to resist foreclosure was arrested. Is there more to come?
Feb 24, 2009 / GRITtv
Homeowners Need a Bailout Too Homeowners Need a Bailout Too
Representative Marcy Kaptur and economist Dean Baker discuss the housing crisis in this special presentation of 'Fighting For Our Homes.'
Feb 18, 2009 / Brave New Films
Will You Go Broke to Keep Your House? Will You Go Broke to Keep Your House?
Will Obama's $75 billion homeowner bailout plan work? Fair housing activists Sarah Ludwig, Paul Leonard and others discuss the foreclosure crisis.
Feb 18, 2009 / GRITtv
Foreclosed Americans Fight Back Foreclosed Americans Fight Back
As a horrified nation sees millions evicted, community organizations--and at least one lawmaker--advise them to hold their ground.
Feb 11, 2009 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Fighting for Our Homes Fighting for Our Homes
With Americans facing foreclosures and banks using bailout money to pay themselves, community organizing has proved to be the best defense for homeowners.
Feb 10, 2009 / Brave New Films
The People’s Sheriff of Chicago The People’s Sheriff of Chicago
A tenant protest compels Cook County's Tom Dart to suspend foreclosure evictions.
Feb 4, 2009 / Feature / John Conroy
A City Made of Waste A City Made of Waste
Across the border from San Diego in Tijuana, a spontaneous urban space is taking shape off the radar of city planners, as an affluent city sheds its aging houses and its pieces are...
Jan 29, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Teddy Cruz
Ticket to Ride Ticket to Ride
The greenest way to lift the country out of a deepening recession is to put people to work building mass transit.