WBAI-FM Upcoming Program
Clearing The Fog

Tue, Aug 4, 2020 11:00 AM

HOUSING TAKEOVERS

Speaking truth to expose the forces of greed with Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. Today the focus is on Federal protection against housing evictions which has expired. Local and state governments are not stepping up to fill in the gap leaving tens of millions of families vulnerable to homelessness during this growing pandemic and deep recession.

In Philadelphia and across the country families, out of desperation, are taking over empty publicly-owned housing. It is estimated that there are up to ten vacant homes for every homeless person. We speak with Cheri Honkala of the Poor People’s Economic and Human Rights campaign about the practicalities of housing takeovers from identifying empty houses to how to turn on the utilities and talk to police. Honkala has decades of experience in this and other necessary actions to survive in poverty in the United States.

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