New Orleans When Princeton’s Eviction Lab came out with their national report on many jurisdictions court records of evictions, we had positive things to say about the project, but we were skeptical. The report seemed to undercount the experience in the community of ACORN Home Savers Campaign. A critical flaw seemed to be the very …
Month: August 2018
Hurricane Harvey, One Year Later
New Orleans Given Houston’s experiences with its own flooding and hurricanes and its welcoming and sheltering of thousands after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it would have seemed safe to assume that if any city could respond well to disaster, it must be Houston. A year after Hurricane Harvey, the answer is clear: not Houston …
Santa Rosa and Sonoma County A Year After the Fires
Santa Rosa United Airlines had sent me several emails advising me to check on my flight to San Francisco. Haze triggered by fires in California and the West were restricting visibility and delaying flights, therefore United was offering to reschedule. When I called on Friday morning about the flight it was still on time, but …