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2. Occupy Homes - Wikipedia

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   The Occupy Homes movement [9] has its roots in the early 1970s, when declining working-class incomes and a lack of bank financing for low-rent properties left thousands of New York City buildings abandoned and hundreds of former tenants squatted vacant buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side, East Harlem, Chelsea, Chinatown, the Lower East ...

3. Where Cities Are Practically Giving Away Abandoned Homes - AOL

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   The "One Dollar Healthy Homes" initiative sold vacant and abandoned homes or lots for $1 per parcel to the people with the best plan for the seriously blighted property that had been acquired by ...

4. Squatting in the United States - Wikipedia

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   They break into vacant, unused bank-owned foreclosed homes and move homeless people inside. [41] Take Back the Land organized a shantytown called the Umoja Village to squat a vacant lot in 2006 and 2007. [42] Homes Not Jails in San Francisco advocates squatting houses to end the problem of homelessness. It has opened "about 500 houses, 95% of ...

5. Bank walkaway - Wikipedia

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   The Government Accountability Office (GAO) defines an abandoned foreclosure as a mortgage that: has entered foreclosure, the servicer decides to not continue pursuing its interest in a mortgage loan (has stopped the foreclosure proceedings), the servicer has charged off the loan (considers it worthless), and; the home is vacant.

6. Squatting in Foreclosed Homes on the Rise? - AOL

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   Thanks to existence of adverse possession laws in some states -- which in rare cases allows a person to claim title to an abandoned property after occupying it for an extended time -- Cherie ...

7. Protesters 'Liberate' Foreclosed Homes - AOL

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   When Virginia Henry bought her boarded-up and abandoned Rochester, N.Y., home in December 2007, she saw potential where others were blind to it. The house, a short sale, became her home to live in ...