Activists Rally In Center City To Put Home Foreclosures On Hold Indefinitely

The Reverend Robert Johnson and organizer Cheri Honkala, at City Hall demonstration.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Some neighborhood activists spent part of their Martin Luther King day of service trying to pressure the Philadelphia sheriff’s office to put home foreclosures on hold – indefinitely.

Organizer Cheri Honkala, along with supporters and members of ‘The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign’ gathered near city hall, facing banker’s row:

“Supposedly, tens of millions of dollars have come to Philadelphia, to save people’s homes, through housing and urban development.”

But, she says it’s not helping homeowner’s on the brink of losing their properties because of the bureaucracy. Then, they moved further down South Broad Street, to the lobby of the sheriff’s office.

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