squatting

While most of America looks to our government and the financial institutions for a solution to the housing crisis, the problem still remains. Countless houses in our neighborhoods sit vacant and boarded up, and the homeless population grows.

Neighbors helping neighbors—to break into vacant houses
By: Madeleine Baran
TC Daily Planet
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2009/02/13/neighbors-helping-neighb...

Poverty rights activists broke into at least a dozen vacant Minneapolis buildings this week and helped homeless families move in.

“This is the modern underground railroad,” said Cheri Honkala, National Organizer for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, the group organizing the “takeovers.”