Wall Street protestors to occupy foreclosed homes//Adam Gabbatt and Ryan Devereux//The Guardian
Organizing for Occupation, or o4o, a New York-based activist group which enters abandoned properties and makes them available for homeless familes, is one of a number of organisations which have joined Occupy Wall Street in the action. The others include Picture the Homeless and New York City Communities for Change.
Activists from o4o have already occupied the Brooklyn house which protesters will march to, and were responsible for matching a family to the property.
Co-founded by prominent radical Episcopal priest Frank Morales – a proponent of squatting since the late 1970s – o4o normally moves destitute families into homes “covertly”, with the intention of establishing long-term residences for them.
A sub-group known simply as “crack” enters and secures vacant properties, before “a lot of people with skills” take over and renovate, Morales said.
Set up in response to the housing crisis, o4o has infiltrated roughly a dozen buildings in the city since June.
