Community organizations are doing everything in their power to help families stay in thier homes. We look at one successful organizing method implemented by the grassroots community group ACORN and how other community groups are learning from them.
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Community organizations are doing everything in their power to help families stay in thier homes. We look at one successful organizing method implemented by the grassroots community group ACORN and how other community groups are learning from them.
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The Obama Administration has yet to devise a plan that would prevent American across th e country from losing their homes. In the meantime Community organizing groups are working on a local level with the plans they’ve created. Austin King is the director of the Financial justice center for the community organzing group ACORN. HE says, ACORN fights for the recognition of the needs of homeowners
Austin: (edit for this quote). Community organizations really had a role to step in and act as a defacto regulator tomake sure these corporations were doing what they should have doen because the government wasn't making sure these corporations weren't doing the right thing.
Last year, the Philadelphia branch of ACORN got the attention of their city’s legislature . in 2007 Philadelphia saw a sharp spike in foreclosures. Ath the beginning of the next year, The philladelphia bra...
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