Foreclosed Homes Offer an Alternative for Homeless Families

As foreclosure rates across the nation skyrocket to record breaking levels, the image of a boarded up home or long vacant driveway are slowly become part of the American landscape. This morning we were inspired by our partners The New York Times to focus on two organizations who are fighting to change that portrait while addressing another pressing national concern: increasing homelessness.

Joining The Takeaway to explain their fights are Max Rameau, who is part of the grass roots organization Take Back the Land that places homeless families in foreclosed homes, and Brian Davis, executive director for the North East Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, who hopes to find the funding to start a similar project in Cleveland that will allow his agency to buy up foreclosed homes and turn them into new starts for homeless families. Also joining the discussion is Michael Stoops, executive director for the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, D.C.