Memphis The ACORN Canada organizing staff held its Year End/Year Begin staff meeting in Memphis with a side trip to Little Rock this year. Among the highlights of the meetings in Memphis were visits at the University of Memphis with ex-Texas and South Dakota ACORN organizer, Steve Soifer, now head of the Social Work Department …
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Foote Homes: Better to Rehab than to Destroy – The Paradox of HUD Programs
Memphis After a 30-year HUD led program to obliterate public housing in the USA, there probably isn’t any more quixotic campaign than to try and save the “last public housing project in Memphis,” as Robert Lipscomb, head of the Memphis Public Housing Authority calls the 497 unit Foote Homes, but there I was huddled in …
Healthcare Hijinks: Catholics, Rockefeller & Repubs
Buffalo Driving through neighborhoods on first the east side and then the west side of Buffalo was a reminder of what happens in America when your issues fall to the bottom of the pile. The impact of deindustrialization was an ever present scar even when we found the occasional still operating Wonder Bread or …