Here are selected articles, tools, and audiovisual materials to inform your organizing, they cover 3 areas: 1) the rights of residents in foreclosed buildings and other resident housing rights; 2) City Life/Vida Urbana’s organizing approach and movement building process in fighting foreclosures and preventing housing displacement; and 3) description of CL/VU’s organizing model and articles on general political education. We hope they answer some of your questions, but please contact us with further questions and comments at organize@clvu.org. 

Housing Rights of Residents in Foreclosed Buildings and Other Residents

• Shield Quiz

Getting Back Your Home After Foreclosure

• Getting Back Your Home After Foreclosure
• Organizing Against the Economic Crisis By Creating a Bank Tenant Association

City Life/Vida Urbana’s Organizing Strategy

• The Three Legged Stool, 2010
• Evaluation of City Life/Vida Urbana Organizing Team, an excerpt, 2009
• Typical Questions About Principal Reduction, May 2011
• 2010 Year in Review