New Orleans Annual report on the “State of the World’s Cities 2010/2011” from the United Nations – Habitat office in Nairobi is not a cheerful bunch of news. The headline grabber is that slum dwellers increased by another 51,000,000 over the last decade in the face of tons of press releases, conferences, and even sometimes …
Author: wade
Finally Mortgage Writedowns
New Orleans When it comes to the gnarling problem of loan modifications and saving the citizen wealth that homeowners have built in their property, the record in the Great Recession has been terrible. There are no sure signs that it is going to get better under the new announcements of an enhanced $50 billion dollar …
Coordinated Autonomy in Montreal
Montreal We were meeting on a cold afternoon in the new offices of the Immigrant Workers’ Center with a host of organizations and activists in Montreal much like a “focus” group of sorts on ACORN Canada and ACORN International and how they might fit and contribute to the ongoing work in this great city. People …