- They were evicting them?
- Yeah. They figured that emptying the properties would make them easier to sell.
- Even though the tenants were paying the rent?
- Yup.
- But with all those foreclosures, it'd mean empty properties all over. It'd mean destroying neighborhoods.
- Not to mention decreasing property values.
- Totally stupid. Didn't Congress do something about it?
- They thought they did. But evictions were going on anyway.
- What finally stopped them?
- Legal aid lawyers. The lawyers took up the tenants' cases and forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to change their policies for thousands of tenants across the U.S.
- They sound like heroes.
- They are, as far a I'm concerned.
