Center Participates in KFAI's Housing & Foreclosure Forum

This past Saturday, September 19th, as part of their "Strive to Thrive" series, radio station KFAI and the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder newspaper hosted a conference at the Sabathani Community Center focusing on issues surrounding the housing & mortgage foreclosures in the Twin Cities.

The Center, and several of our network partners, participated in the event.

Minneapolis City Councilwoman (Ward-9) Elizabeth Glidden opened the day:

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Cheryl Peterson, from Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, one of the Center's network partners in foreclosure prevention addressed the crowd:

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Here's the Center's booth/stand for the day:

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The event was videotaped... as soon as we have access to the video and/or audio of the day's presentations, we will update this post.

Ed Nelson on KFAI's 'Truth to Tell"

The Minnesota Home Ownership Center's Ed Nelson joined Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen on their Wednesday, September 2nd "Truth to Tell" show entitled: HOME FORECLOSURES II: Homelessness is More Acceptable?

Here's the show's description from KFAI:

With the public discussion focused on health care and little else comes news that the foreclosure crisis isn't going away - at least no time soon. A relatively new study of foreclosure rates in Minnesota has been a product of a symposium presented by Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) at the UofM's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Meanwhile the street battle to save Rosemary Williams and others from eviction continues to challenge the powers who would make them all homeless. The question is: what use is it to send struggling homeowners into the streets, vacating properties and blighting neighborhoods while those same owners become essentially wards of the community and shelters if they can find no reasonable alternative housing in their cities.

You can listen to the audio tape of the program:

• MP3 Format: Here
• RealAudio (RM) Format: Here
  

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