Occupiers Seize NY Father’s Foreclosed Home, Give It to Homeless Family (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 16, 2012
The Occupy movement has taken over a man's foreclosed home in Brooklyn, New York and given it to a homeless family
The Occupy Wall Street/Occupy Everything and Anything list continues to grow. Abandonment of babies, vandalism, riots, shootings, rapes, assaults, child pimping, drug overdoses, public fornication, public defecation, thuggery, civil disobedience, and countless other law-breaking activities have been reported at Occupy movement camps across the nation.
Now we can add the taking over of people’s foreclosed homes.
The theft of families’ foreclosed homes. What slime.
From New York Post, OWS Occupies Foreclosed Home, Won’t Help Struggling Owner Unless He’s Homeless:
A band of Occupy Wall Street protesters have taken over a foreclosed two-story home in East New York, made almost $10,000 in renovations, and then very publicly moved in a homeless family.While taking homeless people off the streets and putting them into homes emptied by Wall Street’s own mortgage scam seems very much in keeping with Occupy’s message—especially now that the winter chill has fully set in—one part of this story is a little concerning. The owner of the house, 28-year-old father of two Wise Ahadzi, reached out to Occupy Wall Street leaders to see if they would help him get his house back from the bank. They said they couldn’t.
They told me I don’t qualify. So my lawyer asked what the qualifications are. [They said] I have to be with an organization and they’ll deal with the bank and you have to be homeless. They said they couldn’t help me.
OccupyOurHomes in East New York #ows
From Daily Mail Online, Single dad fights to reclaim his house from Occupy Wall Street protestors after they seize it for a homeless family:
A New York man says Occupy Wall Street protestors went too far after occupying his own home where he and his two children lived.
Protestors took over a man’s house in Brooklyn and presented it to a homeless family after they found it vacant and believed to have been foreclosed on by the bank.
‘Foreclose on banks not people,’ a large yellow sign read above the house after the group celebrated its capture, opening it to a fanfare celebration complete with balloons, a rally and ample press.
Police notified the home owner, Wise Ahadzi, confirmed with Bank of American by the New York Post, sending him promptly to the scene.
Stunned but catching possible opportunity for help, he says if they’re going to be helping anyone save the house from foreclosure it should be him.
‘I paid the mortgage on the house for two years,’ Mr Ahadzi, a 28-year-old father with two girls, ages three and 10, told the Post.
Mr Ahadzi is currently renting out a two-bedroom in a nearby neighbourhood in Brooklyn while he works to pay off the mortgage of the two-story property he says he purchased in 2007 for $424,500 but has since struggled to make payments on.
Just a couple years after its purchase, that home price dropped to $150,000 when the housing bubble burst.
The house has since sat abandoned with community residents telling the protestors according to Gothamist that it’s been three years since someone has lived inside.
‘In a bold new phase for the 99 per cent movement, a vacant home in the center of New York City’s foreclosure crisis is presently being reclaimed today for a local homeless family,’ the movement announced their move on Mr Ahadzi’s home on December 6.
‘Occupy Wall Street, along with local neighbors and community groups, has pledged to stay with the family and defend them from eviction,’ they wrote on their website occupyourhomes.org.
‘Why can’t you fight for me?’ Mr Ahadzi says he asked them, himself being a victim of the foreclosure crisis after losing his job in 2009 and struggling to keep up with his mortgage payments.
But as they explained to him through his attorney, he doesn’t ‘quality’ for their help.
Homeless people “occupy” abandoned US homes
From Fox News, Single dad trying to take back home from Occupy Wall Street protesters:
They’re occupying his home.
Occupy Wall Street protesters announced with great fanfare last month that they moved a homeless family into a “foreclosed” Brooklyn, N.Y., home — even though they knew the house belonged to a struggling single father desperately trying to renegotiate his mortgage, The Post has learned.
“They’re trying to take a house and say the bank is robbing the people because the mortgage is too high — so contact the owner!” fumed Wise Ahadzi, 28, who owns the home at 702 Vermont St. in East New York.
Occupiers “reclaimed” the row house on Dec. 6 and ceremoniously put out the welcome mat for a homeless family.
But Bank of America, which has been in and out of foreclosure proceedings against Ahadzi since 2009, confirmed to The Post that he is still the rightful owner.
Meanwhile, the family that OWS claimed to be putting into the vacant house has not yet permanently moved in. And it turns out the family is not a random victim of the foreclosure crisis, but cast for the part, thanks to their connection to the OWS movement.
OWS last week said it has spent $9,500 breaking into the house and setting it up for the homeless Carrasquillo family. A photo of the smiling family covers a window, under the slogan, “A place to call home.”
The head of the family, Alfredo Carrasquillo, 28, is an organizer for VOCAL- NY, a group that works with OWS. His Facebook page shows him in a “99 Percent” T-shirt at an OWS protest in November.
Crimes & thuggery: OWS miscreants have taken away a man's foreclosed home in Brooklyn, to 'give' it to a so-called homeless family, but actually gave it to an organizer for VOCAL- NY, a group that works with Occupy Wall Street
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