Ten homeless activists were arrested in New York last week after the organization Picture the Homeless occupied a vacant lot in Harlem owned by JPMorgan Chase to protest against a shortage of affordable housing in the city.

Rev. Frank Morales: “We’re no longer believing in the Bloomberg administration five-year plan to end homelessness. It’s been an abject failure. So we’re saying we are going seize the vacant land. We’re going to seize the vacant apartments. We’re going to take them in the interests of the people who need the housing.”