The Home Defenders League is a national movement of underwater homeowners and our allies fighting Wall Street to get back what Wall Street stole from us and for a stronger economy for all of us.
Years after Wall Street banks gutted the economy, we are still paying the price for their greed and recklessness. As underwater homeowners and foreclosure victims we are the ones wrestling with servicers that file fraudulent paperwork and don’t return our phone calls. There are millions of us facing wrongful foreclosures and 15.7 million of us are underwater — meaning banks are charging more for mortgages than our homes are worth.
We’ve experienced three years of broken promises from big banks and failed assistance efforts from the Federal government. We have had enough of the talk and half-measures and are calling for bold action. After working in isolation, we are joining together to demand that our politicians and candidates seeking office make banks pay us back for the damage they have done to our families and our communities through policies that will boost the overall economy.
Here’s what we stand for:
- Resetting of mortgages (principal reduction) to current market value
- Families have the right to stay in homes, paying rent, post foreclosure
- Families, post foreclosure, have the right of “first refusal” to buy back their home at real current value
- A moratorium on foreclosures until due process and fairness can be ensure
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Here’s who our partner organizations are (in alphabetical order):
Action NC
Action United – Pennsylvania
Alliance for a Just Society
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)
City Life – Massachusetts
Colorado Foreclosure Resistance Coalition (CFRC)
Colorado Progressive Coalition (CPC)
Idaho Community Action Network (ICAN)
Leadership Center for the Common Good
Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA)
Maryland Communities United
Miami Workers Center
Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC)
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE)
Moratorium NOW – Michigan
Philadelphians Allied for a Responsible Economy
Right to the City Alliance
Springfield No One Leaves – Massachusetts (part of New Road)
New Jersey Communities United
New York Communities for Change (NYCC)
Occupy Chattanooga
Occupy Homes Atlanta
Organization Unified for Reform Washington (OUR WA)
Organize NOW (ON) – Florida
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN)
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) – Illinois
Standing Against Foreclosure & Eviction (SAFE) – Washington
