New Orleans Thinking about how to open up a pool of potentially affordable housing to low-and-moderate income families, ACORN’s Home Savers Campaign has spent a lot of time visiting with people in various Midwestern cities trying to figure out a way to link abandoned housing stock in land banks with the potential for rehabilitation with …
Month: April 2018
De-escalating Violence
New Orleans Getting more experience in hospital emergency and waiting rooms is on no one’s top ten list, but, trust me, you do the time and this comes with the territory. If you can call it luck, it’s not you personally, though the anger and aggravation when it is family is every bit as bad. People …
Where are Seniors in the Fight for Social Security and Pensions?
New Orleans I’m scratching my head. Somehow, I’ve noticed something weird around the world, and it’s not adding up, or at least not adding up the way it should. Maybe you have noticed it as well. There are a lot of protests here and abroad about cutbacks and threats to pensions and benefit programs, but, …