Miami Community Activist Continues "Vacant Home-Finding" Service For Homeless

In Miami, Florida, WTVJ-TV Channel 6 reports:

• With the number of foreclosures continuing to rise in South Florida, squatting has become a growing trend among the area's homeless. "I had to squat because nobody gave a squat," said 'Mary.' We're calling her 'Mary' and concealing her identity because she's a squatter. She lost her job and took up residence in this vacant foreclosed house.

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• Community activist Max Rameau placed Mary in the home through his organization, Take Back the Land. "Our role is to identify these places and make them available for people who need places to stay, and that's what we do," said Rameau. He's placed seven such families in foreclosed homes.

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