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Foreclosures

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Occupy Bernal Proves Occupy Movement Isn't Totally Ineffective

    Back in December we told readers about the newer, much more civilized arm of the local Occupy movement, dubbed Occupy Bernal Heights. The goal of this new Occupy group was not to pitch tents on public property, but to stop foreclosures and help troubled homeowners get affordable refinancing.So how s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    The Culture of Foreclosure Auctions

    In this week's feature story, "The Dispossessed," several real estate investors who attended a foreclosure auction declined to give their names. Real estate investors who buy foreclosed property after all, don't have the best public reputation -- one homeowner interviewed for the story called them " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    S.F. Housing Advocates Hope Private Investors Will Help Calm Foreclosure Crisis

    There is at least one potential solution to the foreclosure crisis. Many housing advocates in San Francisco favor a strategy called Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods, or the SUN model. The SUN model was first initiated and has drawn positive reviews in Boston, a city with a similar housing ... More >>

  • News

    May 2, 2012

    The Dispossessed: Bayview Homeowners Fight Foreclosures

    There is at least one potential solution to the foreclosure crisis. Many housing advocates in San Francisco favor a strategy called Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods, or the SUN model. The SUN model was first initiated and has drawn positive reviews in Boston, a city with a similar housing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Wells Fargo Accused of Discriminatory Home Foreclosures

    Later this evening, frustrated San Franciscans will descend on the home of Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf to shame him, once again, over his gross wealth and our gross despair. And if that isn't enough to rattle him, this might be: The National Fair Housing Alliance is accusing the big banker of racial ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    S.F. Elderly Woman Fights Foreclosure, Predatory Lending

    Latanya Marie Session, a San Francisco woman, is locked in a bitter dispute over her foreclosed home, which she lost while she was in the hospital suffering from a brain injury.Session's daughter and appointed guardian, Bess Kennedy, filed a complaint in 2010 after the bank foreclosed on her mother' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Supervisor John Avalos Tries to Stop Foreclosures with New Legislation

    ​While in New York City, Occupy protesters celebrated their 6-month of anniversary with mass arrests in Zuccotti Park, protesters in San Francisco are celebrating their anti-big bank existence with legislation that will, hopefully, put an end to these egregious home foreclosures citywide Occupy Be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Occupiers to Put on Ugly Hospital Gowns to Confront Wells Fargo Executive

    ​No better way to draw sympathy than to put on a hospital gown, right? Needless to say, protesters in San Francisco are getting creative with their campaign against Wells Fargo, the nefarious big bank that's screwed one too many homeowners out of their homes. Occupy Bernal Heights, along with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Occupy Bernal Heights to "Auction" Home of Wells Fargo CEO

    ​This weekend, San Francisco families are planning to descend on the front steps of Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf's home to deliver a foreclosure notice of their own, and stage a mock auction to show the wealthy financier the same kind of humiliating treatment that local families have experienced, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Occupy Bernal: Neighbors to Dump Banks on Valentine's Day

    These are just really cool t-shirts​If you are bitter about Valentine's Day, who better to take it out on than Wells Fargo and other big banks? After all, they are the ones who broke your heart, right?We know they've hurt a lot of hearts in Bernal Heights, which is why Occupy Bernal has big plans ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Occupy Oakland: Protesters Arrested While Occupying Foreclosed Home

    ​A day after police cleared them out of a camp in West Oakland, Occupy protesters took over a foreclosed home, which they were attempting to claim as a meeting space. Like every other occupation, this one also went awry. As KGO reports, police arrived at 1415 and 1417 10th St. on Thursday where ac ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 7, 2011

    For the Bob Cratchit in Us All

    ​A day after police cleared them out of a camp in West Oakland, Occupy protesters took over a foreclosed home, which they were attempting to claim as a meeting space. Like every other occupation, this one also went awry. As KGO reports, police arrived at 1415 and 1417 10th St. on Thursday where ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    San Francisco Homeowners Evicted, but Refuse to Leave

    God damn you, Bank of America!​If Occupy SF has done anything useful, it's inspire the community to find new ways to stand up to big banks. Last week, we told readers about how members of the Occupy movement are establishing a credit union in San Francisco. And today, housing advocates are joining ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 23, 2011

    Timeless -- and Timely -- as Ever

    God damn you, Bank of America!​If Occupy SF has done anything useful, it's inspire the community to find new ways to stand up to big banks. Last week, we told readers about how members of the Occupy movement are establishing a credit union in San Francisco. And today, housing advocates are joining ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Move Your Money Day: San Francisco Residents to Dump Their Banks

    ​In what could be the first practical request by the Occupy Movement yet, protesters are asking everyone across the nation to take part in the "Move Your Money Day" tomorrow and divert their investments from big banks. It might seem ambitious, but considering how the mass exodus of customers from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Bayview Woman to Break into Her Foreclosed Home, Reclaim it

    Fibonacci Blue via Flickr Reclaiming what's yours​The list of places being occupied by people who are mad as hell is growing. Justin Herman Plaza has been taken over by an encampment of OccupySF protesters, and others are lining Market Street by the Federal Reserve Bank to protest "corporate greed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    San Francisco Woman Granted Restraining Order Against Wells Fargo

    Read the Fine Print​A San Francisco judge has temporarily blocked Wells Fargo Bank from kicking another resident out of her home.Court documents show that Keng Hee Paik, a San Francisco resident, filed a restraining order against Wells Fargo after the bank started foreclosure proceedings on her Su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Jerry Brown Announces $2 Billion Settlement with Wells Fargo

    Hope you've got room in there for the billions you owe Californians...​The office of Attorney General Jerry Brown announced today that Wells Fargo has agreed in a settlement to offer home-loan modifications worth $2 billion, and will also pay $32 million in restitution to borrowers who lost their ... More >>

  • News

    September 1, 2010

    Why Obama's mortgage-relief program failed

    Hope you've got room in there for the billions you owe Californians...​The office of Attorney General Jerry Brown announced today that Wells Fargo has agreed in a settlement to offer home-loan modifications worth $2 billion, and will also pay $32 million in restitution to borrowers who lost their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: Meet the Guardian's Imaginary Friend and Congratulate the Department of Technology on Its Fictitous $750,000 Tech Center

    When your whole government shuts down so that it can go to Washington D.C. and lobby for handouts, you know you've reached a point of no return. Economically it's a sign of total defeat, an acknowledgment that we are a zombie municipality that needs fresh infusions of federal blood just to go thr ... More >>

  • News

    February 11, 2009

    Dogs also losing their homes in foreclosure

    When your whole government shuts down so that it can go to Washington D.C. and lobby for handouts, you know you've reached a point of no return. Economically it's a sign of total defeat, an acknowledgment that we are a zombie municipality that needs fresh infusions of federal blood just to go thr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    I'd Buy That for a Dollar: S.F.-Area Home Sales Surge

    Prices for homes here in San Francisco have dropped from preposterous to merely ridiculous -- and, as a result, sales are up. Way up.In December, 19.7 percent more homebuyers took the plunge than one month earlier. The December 2008 sales numbers represented a 36 percent leap from December 2007 sale ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2008

    The American Dream's $700 billion price tag

    Prices for homes here in San Francisco have dropped from preposterous to merely ridiculous -- and, as a result, sales are up. Way up.In December, 19.7 percent more homebuyers took the plunge than one month earlier. The December 2008 sales numbers represented a 36 percent leap from December 2007 sale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2007

    Golden Gate Skateparks and Venezuelan Wage-Fixing — It's SFGovernmentInAction!!!

    Prices for homes here in San Francisco have dropped from preposterous to merely ridiculous -- and, as a result, sales are up. Way up.In December, 19.7 percent more homebuyers took the plunge than one month earlier. The December 2008 sales numbers represented a 36 percent leap from December 2007 sale ... More >>

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