After watching her son speak to a packed house, Trinity elaborated on the unbelievable, and illegal, way in which her family lost their home. Her story is specific to her but the reality it represents is universal: “It’s profitable to make people homeless now, that’s the world we live in.” […]
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Parents try to protect their children from so much. As a society, we like to think that many of our city’s issues are “grown-up” issues. The fact is, when we take homes from people, we take homes from kids. We need to acknowledge that reality. It is critical that we […]
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At our 3rd annual storytelling event, Artemis shared the her story of being a determined mother who will do whatever she can to care for her children, and that story, like so many, culminates in a fight for her home. “Do you pay your taxes, or do you take care […]
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Last week, The Moth, a nationally broadcast public storytelling series hosted by NPR, aired a story told by Michele Oberholtzer; a story about her “radicalization” process which let to the founding of the Detroit-based and women-led foreclosure prevention group, The Tricycle Collective. Thousands of people listened to that particular broadcast, […]
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