Archive for November 25, 2009
Shadow Market Delays Recovery, Helps Defiant Homeowners
In a follow-up to a story we published in March, our featured homeowner still lives defiantly without payments or eviction for more than a year.
Published at Miller-McCune.com
It’s been almost a year since Horatio Bernard effectively lost his Baltimore row house to foreclosure and roughly 15 months since he last made a payment on his primary mortgage.
And yet to his amazement and those following his story, Bernard continues living in the home with his ailing mother without any sign of an eviction notice or word from his lender, in this case JP Morgan Chase and then US Bank.
“I haven’t paid a dime,” Bernard told me, sounding gleeful over the phone.
Police Arrest 12 at Health Insurance Office
Police arrested 12 people today for trespassing outside the Portland headquarters for Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon. The acts of civil disobedience were met by similar direct actions in nine cities across the country organized by Healthcare Now and the Center for the Working Poor.
Including the 12 in Portland, 54 people were arrested nationwide.
Read More at TheLundReport.org
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