The Bottom Line Blog

Today in Idaho, Ashlee Wemhoff stopped her home from being sold to the highest bidder.  After a long fight with Bank of America, first to get a reasonable refinance and then to keep their home against foreclosure, the Wemhoff's story is heart-breakingly familiar to millions of Americans who have faced...

Last Tuesday, our partners at Colorado Progressive Coalition (CPC) -an affiliate of Alliance for a Just Society- joined with Occupy Denver, MoveOn Colorado and other community and homeowner advocacy organizations to host a demonstration calling for Wells Fargo to end its practices of robosigning, fraudulent foreclosures and a host of other devious tactics that...

It's been ten days since The New Bottom Line launched a campaign in partnership with Campaign for a Fair Settlement to demand that the Justice Department give the Mortgage Fraud Task Force the resources it needs to investigate, prosecute, and convict the Wall Street bankers who caused the housing crisis. ...

Yesterday in Bloomington, community leaders with Occupy Our Homes Minnesota surprised dozens of Freddie Mac employees at a corporate luncheon. The protesters "taped off the entrance and plywooded the doors to their scheduled 'Default Servicing Workshop.'"  Freddie Mac and PNC Bank have been working to evict the Cruz family from their...

Tracy Van Slyke, co-director of The New Bottom Line, opens NetRoots Nation 2012 in Providence, RI. Read more to see the video.