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BOA Ad: Company Creates, Er, Solves Homelessness

  • Salon , Monday, November 21, 2011 10:03 AM

Bank of America has new ads touting its virtuous work in Brooklyn, creating homes for the homeless. Say again? The company has a new ad about how it is helping homeless people in Brooklyn, N.Y.

One little girl who had been living in a shelter was thrilled to have her own room, and with air-conditioning yet! Better still, the new building her family moved into was solar-powered. Columnist Leslie Savan points out that this comes from the country’s largest mortgage servicer, a company that has foreclosed on hundreds of thousands of homes, and "is surely responsible for creating a few more homeless families than it’s helped."

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