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Instead, they want these tenants simply to stay put, take their cases to court, and force the banks to navigate the entire legal process of eviction.
Working at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Hartigan and Haller have long represented tenants against banks, but when they realized less than half of foreclosure cases reached the courts, they knew they needed to go out and find the missing tenants.
For their part, banks prefer to sell empty properties instead of occupied ones.
“There’s no one who’s against keeping these homes occupied, and yet banks don’t seem to be doing that,” Hartigan says.
He says he finds the tenants “morally blameless” and even somewhat empathizes with “little landlords” who were unable to make mortgage payments. The banks, however, are a different story.