2011 PTH AND OCCUPY WALL STREET

Picture the Homeless joined OWS and other community groups on December 6, 2011, for the National Day of Action Around Housing. Actions took place in more than 25 cities across the country.

PTH members along with OWS marched through East New York highlighting vacant buildings that are being kept empty while there are so many people sleeping in expensive, horrible shelters, and on the street. The march ended with a house warming for a family that moved into a vacant foreclosed building.

PTH Board Member Andres Perez stated, “The December 6th action is just one example of what should be done across the city. All of these vacant buildings need to be turned into housing. The crime should be keeping vacant buildings empty, not trying to live in them!”