Building a Fighting Force to Stop Evictions and Win Affordable Rents

ACORN ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure

New Orleans    Tenancy is rising, and it’s expensive. People are being pressed up against the walls. The old rule of thumb that rent and housing costs should not be more than 30% of income, similar to the old Brooke Amendment named after the legendary African-American Senator from Connecticut, has long been in ruins. This is …

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Scamming the Poor and Workers, Banks and Kushner Style Gerrymandering

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Immigration Reform

New Orleans  America, what a country! The news reports endlessly about plans to hard handle struggling families and workers, barely making it, or not making it at all, on food stamps or SSI disability payments, with increasingly draconian “work” requirements, mindless of whether any jobs exist and any fair definition of what “able-bodied” might mean, …

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