Thinking Out Loud: Grace Ross: Chaos around illegal foreclosures in Worcester MA, Segment 1

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Grace Ross is a housing activist based in Worcester, Massachusetts who has a half-hour interview every Tuesday with David Tierney of WUML, Lowell's “Thinking Out Loud Program” This week she was in the middle of fighting an illegal foreclosure when the called in. The chaos and lawlessness she describes surrounding housing court and illegal evictions […]

ICYMI: Expert on Detroit’s ‘illegal foreclosures’ featured on ‘Democracy Now’

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If we've been talking about Bernadette Atuahene a lot recently , it's because the researcher has uncovered a pattern of inflated assessments and just-out-of-reach exemptions now resulting in tax foreclosures that are arguably illegal under Michigan's constitution. More troubling still, Atuahene's research found that the inflated assessments hit the poorest homeowners hardest. Foreclosure News

As Downtown Detroit Gentrifies, Longtime Black Residents Fight Illegal Tax Foreclosures

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In Detroit, a recent study found that one in four Detroit properties have been subject to property tax foreclosure between 2011 and 2015-many of which may have been illegal. As downtown Detroit becomes increasingly gentrified, thousands of the city's longtime residents-mostly African-American families-have lost their homes to foreclosure. Foreclosure News