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City Life / Vida Urbana (Foreclosure Legal Defense Assistance and Housing Rights Advocacy)

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Advocacy, Human Rights Updated Dec 10, 2013
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Using a model and strategy CL/VU refers to as “the sword and the shield”,

The Shield-Legal Defense: We work closely with tenant and homeowners informing them of their rights through legal services assistance, education, and ongoing casework and legal advocacy.
The Sword-Direct Action: Encouraging residents to stay in their homes, we organize blockades, vigils and other public actions to exert public pressure on the banks. We then draw on the potential of a non-profit bank, Boston Community Capital, to purchase at current real value the homes of foreclosed residents and where possible to resell it to them.

See also, advice on how to use the "administrative process" to stop illegal/unethical foreclosure:

http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Info_on_using_the_Administrative_Process_for_Foreclosure_Issues