Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign

News: Take Back the Land installs homeless families in foreclosed Miami-Dade County properties. Here’s what the neighbors think.

Above Video: Take Back the Land’s Umoja Village Shantytown

Mamyrah Prosper steps gingerly over ankle-high grass strewn with plastic bags and empty soda bottles in the yard of a vacant redbrick house in Miami’s Liberty City. She peers through a gap in a boarded-up window. “It looks in good shape,” she says. “I mean, the walls aren’t falling down. This is definitely one of our stronger options.” Read the rest of this entry »