RECLAIMING SPACES: housing the crisis

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Take Back the Land (Gentrification is Dead )

As the housing liberation movement grows, Take Back the Land is featured in many US and International news / watch the videos here:

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zEXdDO5JU

The New Joads: Trying to Survive in the Spectacle-Commodity Society”

Two US comrades investigate the tent city in Sacramento, California

I’ll be around in the dark. I’ll be ever’where. Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad…An’ when our folks [...]

Take Back the Land - Recuperating foreclosed land and homes

As a result of the crises of gentrification, housing and now foreclosures, Take Back the Land has been liberating public and foreclosed land and homes since 2006.

Subprime Housing Crisis, by Peter Marcuse

“What is called the “subprime mortgage crisis” reflects a fundamental crisis in the housingsystem of the United States. Subprime mortgages are mortgages given to borrowers whose incomes or credit ratings or the equity in whose property does not justify a conventionalmortgage at the prevailing interest rate on prevailing terms. Instead, subprime [...]