New Orleans Don’t get me wrong, travel is a gift, opening up whole worlds, uniting families, and with an open mind and clear eyes, a constant learning experience. Airline travel today is not about consumers, but Wall Street. It’s not for the adventuresome as much as it is for the adaptable. Reading about the holiday …
Month: December 2017
The Contradictions Embedded in East Cleveland
Cleveland In several meetings with community development and housing experts in Cleveland, they kept pointing us east. Not just to the east side of Cleveland which had historically housed the largest African-American communities in the city, but to the near suburb and separate city of East Cleveland, so with an organizer from ACORN Canada’s Ottawa …
Cleveland’s Dilemma: Rehab or Demo
Cleveland Every month in Cleveland, the Vacant & Abandoned Property Action Council, convenes. All the seats around the giant meeting room of the Neighborhood Housing Services were filled with rows of chairs surrounding them, packed as well. Sandwiches and cookies were available, but this was not a group of people who were there for the …