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Occupy Homes or Occupy Our Homes is part of the Occupy movement which attempts to prevent the foreclosure of people's homes.〔 Protesters delay foreclosures by camping out on the foreclosed property. They also stage protests at the banks responsible for the ongoing foreclosure crisis, sometimes blocking their entrances. It has been compared to the direct action taken by people to prevent home foreclosures during the Great Depression in the United States.〔 ==History== The late-2000s financial crisis resulted in the collapse of some large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments, and downturns in stock markets around the world. In many areas, the housing market also suffered, resulting in numerous evictions and foreclosures; in the U.S., 3.6 million homes have been foreclosed since August 2007. In 2008, a federal law termed the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was passed to spend 700 billion dollars to bail out banks. The law also specifically called for the government to encourage banks to modify loans to prevent foreclosures. However, very little money has actually been used to bail out home owners and the banks have done little to change their lending practices to help people to avoid losing their homes. The Occupy Homes movement has its roots in the early 1970s, when declining working-class incomes and a lack of bank financing for low-rent properties left thousands of New York City buildings abandoned and hundreds of former tenants squatted vacant buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side, East Harlem, Chelsea, Chinatown, the Lower East Side, and the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. A similar group based in Miami, Florida, Take Back the Land, has been working to block evictions, and rehousing homeless people in foreclosed houses since 2007. Early successful actions included the delay of an eviction of a woman in Ohio when protesters camped out in her yard, 〔Maddow, Rachel; Leitsinger, Miranda. (“Foreclosed homes, empty lots are new ‘Occupy’ targets” ), MSNBC, December 2, 2011 (phrase "Occupy Our Homes" presented at 7:04)〕 convincing Fannie Mae to hold off on an eviction by holding a vigil outside a home in California,〔Hartmann, Thom.(From Occupy Wall Street To Occupy The Living Room ), The Talk Radio News Service, November 14, 2011.〕 delaying a foreclosure in Minnesota so that an occupant could first move out of a home,〔 and convincing a New York landlord to provide adequate heating to tenants by occupying a boiler room.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Occupy Homes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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