Affordable Housing Crisis Growing Globally

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Chicago    When affordable housing is in the headlines, it’s a safe bet that it is not prompted by a concern for low-and-moderate income families, but maybe we can take a lemon and make it lemonade, as activists are doing in many cities. Here’s the context. According to Knight Frank, a London-based real-estate consultancy reported in …

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No Matter the Context, Listening is Always Central in Organizing

Community Organizing

New Orleans       When community organizing makes it into the mainstream, most often it’s duck-and-cover because trouble and confusion is coming as the critical content and context of organizing gets diluted and dumbed down for mass consumption.  With some trepidation I read a guest column in the Washington Post by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove who directs the …

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