Taking Back Homes From the Banks: Exercising the Human Right to Housing
May has seen an upsurge in local organizations exercising their human rights to housing. Most people recognize that international human rights guarantee all humans a right to housing. With millions of homeless living in our communities and millions of empty foreclosed houses all across our communities, groups have decided to ...
7 arraigned after foreclosure protest at Stony Ridge home
STONY RIDGE, Ohio - Seven people were arrested during the forced evacuation of a Stony Ridge house early Friday, including the homeowner who spent the week barricaded inside with several protesters in an attempt to resist eviction because of foreclosure.The defendants appeared via video conference Friday afternoon in Perrysburg Municipal ...
Stony Ridge standoff ended peacefully
STONY RIDGE — The quiet of dawn was jarred by battering rams breaking glass and slamming into homemade barricades. After five days of waiting out the owner of a foreclosed home in Stony Ridge the Wood County Sheriff’s Office waited no more. CLICK HERE FOR PHOTO GALLERY“Get your hands up. ...
7 people arrested after foreclosure protest at Stony Ridge home
STONY RIDGE, Ohio - Seven people were arrested during the forced evacuation of a Stony Ridge house early Friday, including the homeowner who spent the week barricaded inside with several protesters in an attempt to resist eviction because of foreclosure.Those arrested may appear in Perrysburg Municipal Court as early as ...
Sadler taken from foreclosed home to Wood County Jail
WOOD COUNTY, OH (WTOL) - Keith Sadler and five others were taken from Sadler's foreclosed home in Stoney Ridge to Wood County Jail Friday morning.They'll be arraigned via video in Perrysburg Municipal Court sometime Friday.Authorities say there might be a seventh person involved.The six had barricaded themselves in the home with PVC ...
Stony Ridge man arrested after being carried from foreclosed home
STONY RIDGE, Ohio - Wood County sheriff's deputies arrested a Stony Ridge man Friday morning who has been holed up inside his foreclosed residence in an attempt to resist eviction.Authorities carried Keith Sadler from his U.S. 20 home without incident as many protesters watched from the front of the structure. ...
STONY RIDGE, Ohio - Power was cut just after noon yesterday to the foreclosed home of a Stony Ridge man holed up inside in an attempt to resist eviction.Soon after the line to the electric meter was severed, members of the Toledo Foreclosure Defense League and other supporters, who were ...
Stony Ridge Squatters Take Protest to the Bank
VIDEO: LIVE FEED FROM KEITH SADLER'S HOME | TwitterBACKGROUND: Keith Sadler on MichaelMoore.com
Ohio man facing foreclosure locks self in home
STONY RIDGE, Ohio — A northern Ohio man who is being evicted from his home locked himself inside and is vowing to stay until a moratorium is declared on foreclosures.The man along with five members of a group called the Toledo Foreclosure Defense League began their show of defiance Sunday.Keith ...
Wood County squatter still in his home
Its day three of the human cat and mouse game going on in Wood County's Stoney Ridge community.Keith Sadler and five others have boarded themselves inside Sadler’s recently foreclosed home.Friends feed fruit and fruit juice through a small hole cut in a boarded up window and it's clear to those ...
Man seals self inside foreclosed residence
STONY RIDGE, Ohio - Through a golf ball-sized hole drilled into a front window, Keith Sadler has a message for banks foreclosing on people like him who fall behind on their mortgage payments. He wants a little help, a little understanding, and a big demand: an end to foreclosures and ...
Squatters continue foreclosure fight
STONY RIDGE, Ohio (WUPW) - Keith Sadler, five others, and a handful of activists with the Toledo Foreclosure Defense League continued their fight Monday against foreclosure in the Wood County town of Stony Ridge. Sadler has locked himself inside his home for the past 24 hours and is expected to ...
Wood County man refuses to leave foreclosed home
WOOD COUNTY, OH (WTOL) - A Wood County man is breaking the law to stay in his home.Keith Sadler says the bank is evicting him from his Stony Ridge home Monday, but he is not giving in without a fight.Sadler has owned the home for 20 years and now he ...
Wood County man fights to keep home from foreclosure
A Wood County man is facing an eviction from the sheriff's office, but is refusing to leave his home. Keith Sadler says he wants a moratorium on all home foreclosures. Dozens of supporters joined the protest today in the 500 block of Fremont Pike in Stony Ridge. Sadler has been ...
WOOD CO. - Six people are locked in a house in Wood County. As of Sunday night, they are waiting for police to come in and tell them they have to get out. You see, they are squatting to fight foreclosure.Keith Sadler has lived in his house for the last ...
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