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Groups call for stay on auctions of foreclosured homes

by WKSU's KAREN SCHAEFER


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Karen Schaefer
 
A coalition of community groups met at the home of a Cleveland woman yesterday (Monday) to ask the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office for a 60-day moratorium on home foreclosure auctions. They want the delay to give homeowners more time to re-negotiate their mortgage terms. Advocates say more than 2-thousand people in the county could lose their homes by mid-February. But the Sheriff's Office says it must follow court orders.
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Foreclosed homeowner Tina Williams joins community groups to ask Cuyahoga County sheriffs for a stay on foreclosure auctions
Willimas has lived in her house in the Union Miles neighborhood for seven year.  She's spent the last three years trying to stave off foreclosure
Activists like Bill Callahan are asking the Cuyahoga County Sheriff to stop evicting residents and selling their foreclosed houses for two months, while homeowners re-negotiate their mortgage terms
Callahan says the coalition of community groups found that the homes of about three hundred county residents are scheduled for auction on Christmas Eve.  They've assembled a list of the banks who are foreclosing on the homes
Just around the corner from Williams' home are a number of vacant houses like this one.  Neighbors say they're prone to vandalism and crime
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