New Orleans An internet application that would allow food stamp recipients participating in SNAP, or Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program as the government calls it now, seems like a great idea. A Brooklyn-based startup called Propel created an app that allows recipients to check on their smartphones and see how much of their benefits they have …
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Contract for Deed as a Non-Profit Affordable Housing Tool
New Orleans Thinking about how to open up a pool of potentially affordable housing to low-and-moderate income families, ACORN’s Home Savers Campaign has spent a lot of time visiting with people in various Midwestern cities trying to figure out a way to link abandoned housing stock in land banks with the potential for rehabilitation with …
De-escalating Violence
New Orleans Getting more experience in hospital emergency and waiting rooms is on no one’s top ten list, but, trust me, you do the time and this comes with the territory. If you can call it luck, it’s not you personally, though the anger and aggravation when it is family is every bit as bad. People …