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Concerned About Foreclosure? Attend this Bed-Stuy Event and Get Advice from Best Non-Profits in America

If you are in danger of foreclosure, or you know someone who is, or you just want to make sure you never fall into that danger, attend this session being held in Bedford Stuyvesant on Tuesday, July 14th.

Counsellors will be on hand to give advice, free of charge.

Participating groups include the best of the best in the city (we'd dare say the best of the best in the country).

They include NEDAP (the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project), South Brooklyn Legal Services, the Flatbush Development Corporation, the Pratt Area Community Council and others.

Location is the Bed-Stuy Multi-Service Center at 1958 Fulton Street.

Time is Tuesday, July 14th, from 4 to 8 p.m.

Elected officials, including Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and State Senator Malcolm Smith, are involved in putting together the session, according to NEDAP.

Those involved will also attempt to make people aware of scams that pretend to offer foreclosure help, but instead run off with your money.

See the flier for the event.

'Don't Lose Your Home' Info Session, Tues. PM at Boys and Girls High in Bed-Stuy

As part of a "Know the Facts, Don't Lose Your Home" campaign, a coalition of community assistance groups will be meeting with homeowners tonight (Tuesday, April 21) at Boys and Girls High School.

At issue are the tax and water liens that are affecting thousands of cash-strapped homeowners throughout the city, including large numbers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to the neighborhood's Councilman, Al Vann.

The city tax liens are acquired by collectors, who then go after the delinquent homeowners, who risk losing their properties.

In a press release, Vann says he is working along with the Coalition for the Improvement of  Bedford Stuyvesant to put on the evening event, which will last from 5 to 8 p.m.

Participants are calling this a "Tax Lien Help Night."

On hand, according to the release, will be representatives from the Department of Finance, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).

Organizations such as NEDAP (the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project) will also be present to offer counsel, the release says.

Councilman Vann's out-front position on this issue comes as more than a half dozen challengers are testing the political waters, hoping to beat Vann in elections later this year.

Vann would have been prohibited from going for a third-term, but he and other city officials (including most notably Mayor Michael Bloomberg) pushed to overturn the two-term limit that had been put in place by voters.

Vann, Bloomberg and others succeeded in changing the two terms to three terms.

Even so, many energized would-be elected officials decided to go after Vann anyway.

(To read about some of them, begin here.) Also check out other previous BrooklynRon posts, including one on the possibility of Bloomberg helping Vann; and other posts on the various challengers.

For instance, click here for one on Robert Cornegy; here for one on Mark Winston Griffith; here for one on Saquan Jones; here for one on Tremaine Wright.

There are others. Just search around on the website's search box.