Atlanta Sometimes in the hurly-burly of life and the wild carnival of every day, we underestimate the little things on one’s list and forget that they might be large items on someone else’s list. Even saying this, it sounds minor and inconsequential, but walk with me for a minute. On the same day that ACORN …
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Want Our Vote, Talk to Me about Tenants
New Orleans It’s a crowded field for the Democratic nomination for president this time around, but some of the candidates are wising up a bit and realizing that, if you want to win and push new and different voters to the polls, you better have a real plan for renters and affordable housing, not …
Winning Half-a-Loaf Against Gentrification in New Orleans
New Orleans People were out in force in the Holy Angels meeting space in my neighborhood of Bywater in New Orleans. I got there ten minutes after the announced starting time, and it was standing room only. The convener said they had one-hundred explanatory packets laid out on table tops, but they clearly had …