WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
July 22, 2021 New Orleans I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Billings, Montana over my lifetime. I can say the same for Rapid City, South Dakota, though it has been a couple of years. Same for Waco, where I just had a cousin graduate from Baylor. I’m not unfamiliar with Coeur d’Alene, …
New Orleans Housing is important enough that it can trigger a worldwide recession, especially if the market bursts first in the United States, as we all found in 2007. Ironically, it is not important enough that data on housing prices, much less rents, is included in general economic forecasts from the worlds’ main financial bodies …
Vicksburg, Mississippi It was hard to believe a friend’s claim that Oakland, California has now become one of the three most expensive cities in the country in no small part because the housing market has gone berserk. He said that Oakland now only followed New York City and San Francisco, and had bypassed Seattle, San …