From Foreclosure to Fair Lending

"Occupy Wall Street’s biggest success was its impact on the national conversation. But now, many voices ask, what next? This book offers some important answers. In From Foreclosure to Fair Lending, leading experts and activists in housing and lending practices reflect on how the Occupy spirit revives the historic civil rights and grassroots organizing movements to take on new challenges in a new century." ~Clarence Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune

"Housing policies and practices are at the center of the ongoing economic crisis in the United States, and the consequences in lost homes and lost savings have been devastating for many Americans. This collection gives us the essential background to understand these developments and support the struggle for social justice in housing that is emerging." ~Frances Fox Piven, Graduate School, City University of New York

"Our nation is at a crossroads precipitated by the lending and foreclosure crisis that has the potential of erasing the gains of forty-five years of fair housing/fair lending enforcement. Traditional responses to the current challenges may be reaching the limits of their effectiveness. From Foreclosure to Fair Lending demonstrates another way." ~Michael P. Seng, Co-executive Director, The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center