Grandma Challenges Real Estate Giant in Early Test of New California Law
(Beth LaBerge/KQED) Jocelyn Foreman was full of nervous energy and dread. It was a crisp morning in early March. She arrived at the Pleasant Hill Community Center to find a handful of men and women in a semicircle outside the sandstone-colored building, clutching folders and holding cell phones. They were there for a foreclosure auction, poised to bid on the house that Foreman rents: a single-story, 1,500-square-foot tract home in Pinole. It’s a simple home, set back from the street, with a steep sloping backyard, worn carpets and a roof that leaks when it rains. A man with a clipboard st...