Vancouver Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada may be a case study of the post-gentrified city. Average housing prices have dropped all the way down to $1.4 million per house. The Vancouver Sun reported that a Habitat for Humanity house had sold for $330,000. ACORN Canada’s office and all of our groups are in the working-class …
Category: ACORN International
Ending Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans This Time
New Orleans When you drive near the river in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and look down along the banks, you can still see signs of the hurricane that swept through the city and the country making tens of thousands homeless almost twenty years ago in 1999. In my first trips to the city as we …
Facebook Escapes Responsibility
New Orleans The reviews are in on Mark Zuckerberg’s trip to Washington to visit with Congress. Amazingly, he seems to have emerged largely unscathed from two days of hearings. All reports indicate that the political class was befuddled and confused, didn’t really understand social media or grasp the full range of the business model, and let …