“I’m Home Again – The Chains are Broken!” Toni’s Liberated Home
A month ago Toni Furman was evicted from her Lithonia home. Since being evicted she has been fighting and organizing to get back into her home. This past Monday, June 10th, she moved back in and liberated her home with the help of Occupy Our Homes Atlanta. The outpouring of neighborly support has been amazing....
OOHA Fights for Justice at the Department of Justice
On Monday May 20th 500 residents and activists took to the streets in our nation’s capital to demand that Eric Holder hold Wall Street accountable and the Department of Justice actually serve justice to the bankers that are taking our homes. Our march blocked the main door of the Department of Justice as we demanded an audience...
Wasted Wealth: Atlanta, GA
Occupy Our Homes Atlanta joined with groups around the nation to complete a study of homeowner housing wealth lost in 2012. Keep in mind that 2012 was not the height of the crisis. In fact many bill it as the year the housing recovery finally arrived. However, millions of homeowners remain underwater, and on average...
Mike Figaro confronts John Wieland Homes local executives
On a cloudy May Day Mike Figaro and about 10 supporters walked into the Smyrna office of John Wieland Homes with a letter to deliver and grievances to air. They walked into the office, representative of the suburban sprawl trademarked by John Wieland Homes, and asked to speak to someone in charge of securing permits...
Supporters join Mark Harris at Fannie Mae to demand justice
Mark Harris, an Occupy Our Homes Atlanta member who has been fighting Fannie Mae for his home since last fall, was joined today outside their regional headquarters by dozens of supporters, and community members, including American Friends Service Committee, Atlanta Jobs With Justice, Teamsters Local 728, and the SCLC. Mark, a Desert Storm veteran, had...
Drama On The Court House Steps
Occupy Our Homes Atlanta, struggling homeowners, renters, and community members showed up on the Fulton Country Court steps on Tuesday February 5th as the foreclosure auction was taking place to confront investors and expose a troubling new trend being tested in the Atlanta housing market. Our communities have suffered enough from Wall Street’s greed. The...
OOHA Members Stepping Up!
Both this weekend’s member retreat and pancake brunch were successes. It’s exciting to see more and more members of Occupy Our Homes Atlanta using their voices to steer the movement. At Saturday’s membership retreat, which was proposed, organized, and facilitated by members, we spent time schooling ourselves on how best to explain the housing crisis...
Keeping Pittsburgh Beautiful
The Pittsburgh community is arguably one of the hardest hit communities from the economic crisis in the Atlanta metro area. The historic African American community was very intentionally targeted for some of the city’s worst predatory loans from the late 90′s to 2008. The result: the community was essentially stripped of it’s wealth and left...
Join Occupy Our Homes Atlanta TODAY for the following two events
Pittman Victory Press Conference: 11AM @ 404 Glen Iris Drive Atlanta, GA 30308 Home Liberation: 3:45PM Pittman Park @ the corner of Delevan Street SW and Garibaldi Street SW Atlanta, GA 30310 One year ago today the Occupy Our Homes movement launched, signaling a fundamental shift in how homeowners responded to banks trying to take...
D6 National Day of Action Marks Year Two of Occupy Our Homes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts: Matt Browner-Hamlin, OccupyOurHomes.org: 202-630-6288 Shab Bashiri, Occupy Our Homes Atlanta: 770-356-0577 Nick Espinosa, Occupy Homes MN: 612-432-8888 Occupy Wall Street Anti-Foreclosure Offshoot Occupy Our Homes to Kick Off Year Two with National Day of Action 12.6.12: ‘Reclaim Our Homes, Reclaim Our Future’ On Thursday December 6th 2012, communities around...
