BOSTON -- Bay State residents who have been evicted as part of the ongoing foreclosure crisis say they are fed up and many of them took their message straight to the bank during a midday rally through Downtown Crossing Tuesday.

NewsCenter 5's Shiba Russell reported that the group marched through the city shopping district carrying placards and chanting as part of a protest against banks that have been foreclosing on properties.

"They really need to see the faces of this money that they're passing back and forth. This is real life. This is real people that this is happening to and it's got to stop," Deborah Williams, of Roxbury, said.

Several said they are fighting to keep their homes.

"They come in here and give out all this money and then they give you those balloon mortgages knowing ... knowing ... that you wouldn't be able to afford that increase," Dorchester's Hildreth Brewington said.

Brewington and his sister are legally blind and are facing an eviction from their home after a bank foreclosed.

"We want the evictions stopped. There's no reason to disrupt Boston's neighborhoods. Here you have thousands of families willing to pay rent and the banks won't take it. That's ridiculous," City Life's Steve Meachem said.

The protesters delivered a giant eviction notice to Deutsche Bank on behalf of foreclosed families, even rallying inside the lobby of the Franklin Street building where the bank leases space. Boston police asked them to leave and the protest continued outside, despite the group's lack of a permit.

The residents said they just want banks to listen to them.

"They refuse to help us out, to work with us so we can keep our homes. So now, they want to throw me out," Donna Scott said.

"They forced us into getting these loans and I'm left with nothing today," Norma Graham said.