But the owner denies it is closing.

Protesters gathered at Freedom Plaza Wednesday to march on Covington & Burling, a law firm where Holder was once a partner.

Carmen Pittman, who has first-hand experience with foreclosure, was stunned then arrested.

A woman in Northeast D.C. was evicted from her home today despite a last-ditch attempt by members of Occupy D.C. to prevent it from happening.

The resident of a house on Maryland Avenue NE who was facing eviction won a bit more time today after a group of demonstrators from Occupy D.C. gathered outside her house to prevent her from being evicted.

In what might be the most concrete, positive result of its actions since first appearing last October, Occupy D.C. succeeded, it appears, in helping a Bowie, Md. woman stay in her home and avoid a foreclosure sale.

Next week, Occupy D.C. group plans to return to the Occupy Wall Street movement’s roots of outrage over the nation’s enduring foreclosure crisis by protesting outside the downtown office of federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac.

The Washington Post has an interesting report about a new way for house buyers to scope out the market. Local real estate agencies are organizing “Foreclosure Tours,” using a big, comfy bus to cart around prospective buyers, along with agents and even a house inspector. The idea seems a little grim, but foreclosure rates are soaring (they hit a record high nationwide at the end of 2007) and for buyers with the means, it seems…