Friday, April 10, 2009
Congrats to those protecting tenants in foreclosures
Congratulations to Reps. Mike Foley and Ted Celeste for actively looking after the interests of renters who find themselves forced out of foreclosed properties through no fault of their own. The Cleveland Tenants Organization was recently honored with the prestigious Anisfield-Wolf Memorial Award, a $20,000 prize, for their outstanding work on this same issue. CTO was given the award by The Cleveland Foundation and Community Solutions to recognize their initiative and actions to help renters facing eviction due to foreclosure and to warn the hundreds of families who may not have known it was coming. They took on this major task with no additional external support simply because they recognized its importance and could foresee what a crisis it would become for families in our community. How fortunate we are to have such resources available.