Foreclosures have become a raging fire, destroying whole communities in their wake. Tenants of foreclosed buildings often times have the least control over their situation. Here is a look at some rights that tenants do have during a foreclosure, and why we need to step even beyond these.

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Take Back the Land is really united in two strategies that are intended to compliment each other: liberate empty bank owned homes and to defend families going through foreclosure. This type of foreclosure defense is not unique and is happening in organizations and coalitions around the country, from long standing community groups like City Life / Vida Urbana to the more recent Occupy Our Homes phenomenon. The execution of foreclosure defense is done along a course of research, and the beginning includes identifying homes that are in foreclosure or pre-foreclosure. This means checking city and county records and locating houses where the process has already begun. From here people will go about contacting the people currently living in those houses, often by arranging targeted canvassing to see if those people would like to resist their foreclosure and support their neighbors.

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