Major Lease Purchase Option Company Comes to Agreement in Campaign

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure

New Orleans   Agreements are always hard to win and in the campaign to stop predatory practices in the contract for deed, land purchase, lease and rent-to-own markets in lower income and working communities any such understandings would have seemed unlikely as the campaign began in 2017. But, now after months of actions, demands, and back-and-forth …

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Houston Landlords and Banks Need Pressure, Tenants and Owners Need Help

Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Financial Justice Immigration Reform

Houston  Going into Beaumont on Interstate 10, one exit after another was still closed off. Water was still standing. Trailers in a park near a small lake were still submerged with water coming up to the shoulder of the highway. Spotted along the route in one random location after another were abandoned cars and trucks, …

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