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“Housing is Human Right, No Foreclosures,” Says Chicago Anti–Eviction Campaign

"A family is fighting eviction. They say they are victims of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and are calling on the bank to stop their eviction from a Northwest Side home which is scheduled to take place this weekend.

Community activists say they will do whatever they have to do to keep the Tellez family in their home, even if that means forming a human chain to keep sheriff's deputies from evicting the family.

The Chicago couple says they want to stay in the home they have owned for the last five years and can't believe that after months of doing the right thing they could end up homeless.

They are the voices of defiance as a community supports Alvaro and Silvia Tellez as they fight to stay in their home now lost to foreclosure."

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