An Atlanta couple has a new home after living in shelters for months.  Problem is they're not in the home legally.

Reneka Wheeler used to work in advertising for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.  Then she lost her job and found herself out of work and out of her home.

Her partner, Michelene Meusa, was also out of work, with two children.

She had spent her allotted time in shelters, moving from place to place with Wheeler and the boys.  Then Meusa ran out of options.

"We couldn't go back (to the shelters)," she says.  "That was the thing. 

"We can't go back to those places anymore," she says.  "So, for us, we would be left on the street."

Enter the Occupy Atlanta movement.

The movement, which is based in the Pittman Park neighborhood of the city, found an empty home there, a home that the previous tenant had to vacate for medical reasons.

The house is owned by the Bank of New York. It was boarded up, with the front and back yards overgrown.  That was until neighbors stepped up with a plan.

With the blessing of the former tenant, Wheeler and Meusa moved in on Thursday.  Volunteers cut the grass and planted flowers in the front yard.  The utilities, which had been turned off, were switched back on.  And the couple moved in.

The bank doesn't know they're living in the formerly empty house, but one Occupy member says the bank hasn't cared about the home for months, so why should they start now.

Occupy leaders hope the takeover sends a message to similar communities; there are too many empty homes at a time when so many people are living in shelters and on the street.

"This house is one of 47 vacant homes in this neighborhood," says Wheeler.  "So why is there a homeless problem?  Why is there a displacement problem when you have so many empty houses just sitting there, rotting away?"

According to Occupy leaders there are six vacant houses for every homeless person in the city of Atlanta.  They hope the takeover of the Pittman Park home will prompt communities to contact the banks that own the vacant houses and try to get them to use them for good.

As for Wheeler and Meusa, they've been out of work for months and finding that not having a stable address makes finding a job extremely difficult.  Now that they have such and address, albeit an illegal one, they're hopeful to find work.

But, whatever happens, whether they remain in the house for a long time, or whether the county marshals come and evict them, both women are philosophical.

"We're not worried, "says Wheeler, "Because, with God, everything is possible."