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WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".

Tag: Foreclosure

Shaming Wall Street? Foreclosure Moratorium!

Financial Justice Foreclosure December 1, 2009 by wade

Boston There’s a full moon.  The Saints are 11-0 and whipped the New England Patriots like a red-headed stepchild.  Now the Treasury Department has announced another new strategy for dealing with foreclosures, given that nothing else has had much of a dent on the problem:  shaming. I guess anything is possible these days, but what …

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Mortgages Underwater

Financial Justice Foreclosure November 25, 2009 by wade

New Orleans The Wall Street Journal published a chart in Monday’s paper based on information from First American Home Core Logic, a real estate information service in Santa Ana, California in Orange County which was the heartland of the sub-prime industry.  The chart indicated that between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5 (22.6%) home …

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Foreclosure Follies

Financial Justice Personal Writings May 9, 2009 by wade

New Orleans Bailouts continue at the rate of bulging billions, but foreclosures for homeowners in US and aboard are still all talk, no cattle. Center for Responsible Lending put out a notice that 1.7 million homeowners took a banking or what we used to call a “beating,” when the majority of the Senate voted to …

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