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Free Press --> http://freep.com/article/20091008/NE...day-in-DetroitJesse Jackson to lead Detroit rally against foreclosures
Oralandar Brand-Williams / The Detroit News
Detroit -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson will lead a rally against "improper" credit reporting, foreclosures and taxes today on the city's northwest side, RainbowPUSH Coalition announced Wednesday.
Jackson is president of the RainbowPUSH Coalition.
The public demonstration will be held at 5 p.m. at 19667 Renfrew, a home in the city's tony Sherwood Forest neighborhood.
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"Detroit is being destroyed by massive foreclosures and in spite of receiving federal money for loan modifications, [[banks) ... fail to pro-actively assist responsible and respectable metro Detroit homeowners," read a statement from the group Wednesday.
The home on Sherwood Forest, owned by Lenore and Andre Hudson, is in foreclosure.
"Our circumstances were not our fault," said Lenore Hudson. "We did everything right."
She said the bank gave her bad information, and she ended up going into foreclosure because of a tax issue.
Community groups and some lawmakers are calling for a two-year moratorium on foreclosures.
State Rep. Hansen Clarke, D-Detroit, has introduced legislation to put a two-year freeze on all mortgage and tax foreclosures in Michigan.
Metro Detroit is among the country's top five areas for home foreclosures.
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Jesse Jackson to lead rally today in Detroit
BY TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
The Rev. Jesse Jackson is scheduled to lead an anti-foreclosure rally today at a home on Detroit’s west side.
Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and Rev. David Bullock, president of Rainbow PUSH Detroit, will host the rally at 5 p.m. today at 19667 Renfrew, supported by the Michigan Democratic Future and the Young Democrats of Michigan.
“Detroit is being destroyed by massive foreclosures and in spite of receiving federal money for loan modifications,” Isaac Robinson, spokesman for Michigan Democratic Future, said in an announcement today.
The rally near 8 Mile and Livernois focuses on improper credit reporting, inappropriate tax increases and unjust foreclosure proceedings.
“I think what happened at Cobo yesterday, and what happened at the fairgrounds with the DTE bill payment assistance program a couple weeks ago, I think people are at desperation level in Detroit,” Bullock said this morning. People seeking assistance to pay for housing and utilities mobbed both locations.
The rally today will be held at the home of two Detroit area teachers currently facing foreclosure, Bullock added.
“This is about a number of people who I would describe as financially responsible folks who are finding themselves in the midst of the foreclosure crisis,” Bullock said. “This is about asking the banks that receive stimulus money to act more proactively when helping people modify their loans.”
For more information, call 313-917-3115.
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