New Orleans Our friend and partner, Drummond Pike, founder and CEO of Tides, jumps into the blogosphere with both feet on a subject near and dear to many of our hearts — the rip and ruin of New Orleans. We were able to be a source here and a footnote to the tale, because …
Month: April 2008
Attacking Mortgage Fraud
St. Petersburg The ACORN committee, including Aaron Pridgin, a national board member from Florida, and Gloria Sweiringa, a national board member from Maryland, had met for hours with the management team from Ocwen Financial Services in their West Palm Beach offices. Looking under the hood, they were nowhere near as bad as we …
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West Palm Beach Microfinance has inspired great enthusiasm and interest in many quarters. It is a strategy that marshals resources in hard to finance areas at a time where private solutions seem to constantly trump real programs. The jury is still out. I have reservations partly because it is hard to figure how poverty …