The housing liberation movement is one of the most inspirational, constructively-revolutionary responses to the crisis. In the Twin Cities, the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign (in coalition with ACORN) has been fighting foreclosures by protesting the sheriff’s office for “a moratorium on local home evictions and foreclosures” (source) and moving homeless families into 13 empty homes. ”Cheri Honkala, who is the national organizer for the Minnesota group and was homeless herself once, likened the group’s work to “a modern-day underground railroad,” and said squatters could last up to a year in a house before eviction.” (NYT)
Check out this CNN interview with Take Back the Land organizer, Max Rameau and a longer interview on Democracy Now (from takebacktheland.org). Take Back the Land is on the forefront of the housing liberation movement in Miami, Florida (buy their book Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification, and the Umoja Village Shantytown).
