Milwaukee Looking city to city, part of what is driving rents up to record highs and exacerbating the affordable housing crisis is the critical intrusion of large corporate ownership of single-family homes in some markets in addition to larger developments where they have always been a factor. The ACORN Home Savers Campaign has monitored this …
Month: April 2019
Affordable Housing Crisis Growing Globally
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 …
No Matter the Context, Listening is Always Central in 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 …