New Orleans Trying to clean up the attic meant buying contractor bags. Building out the attic had been a construction project over years that I had finally finished in time for my son to make this his room for some years until he left home. He never quite got all of his stuff out …
Month: January 2019
Educating Citizens as a Constitutional Right
New Orleans Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell agreed with Justice Thurgood Marshall that educational inequality might rise to the level of a constitutional breech, if students were curtailed from their ability to exercise other rights, like their “right to speak and to vote.” On that narrow, but critical bridge, lawyers and their plaintiffs have sued …
The Problem of Scale for Housing Development Projects
Milwaukee Talking to the housing and economic development people, whether from the government or nonprofits, I kept hitting my head against a ceiling when it came to the thinking about the housing problems. Looking and thinking about the issues in the Amani neighborhood made this headache unavoidable. Work with me on this. In Amani you …