Campaign Overview

An educated community is an informed community

Foreclosure Patterns
Brooklyn 2007

Know The Facts Don't Lose Your HomeThe Know The Facts Don't Lose Your Home campaign's mission is to engage in foreclosure prevention expose the dangers of predatory lending with a focus on education, empowerment and the development of the Bedford-Stuyvesant community.

With the knowledge and tools predatory lending is preventable!

7 community organizations have collaborated and designed this campaign to educate Bedford-Stuyvesant Residents on the dangers of predatory lending.

Our goal is to be a resource to which the community can turn to get the information and facts they need to be better prepared homeowners as well as avoid being victims of predatory lending practices.

The 7 sponsoring groups were chosen by Councilman Albert Vann who stated, "I am greatly encouraged by the collaboration of our premier community-based organizations. Their collective ability to engage and inform the residents of our community will certainly reduce the number of neighbors who became duped by predatory lenders."