http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/No-Time-Like-The-Present.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I can vividly remember an argument I listened to from the back of the room perhaps fifteen years ago at an ACORN Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. where Robert Putnam, the Harvard sociologist and author of the often-cited book about the deterioration of community …
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Is Code Enforcement the Friend or Enemy of Lower Income Family Home Ownership?
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/01_VEN_AQUI.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans As a principle part of our organizing around adequate and affordable housing over decades, we’ve always believed in there being a “warrant of habitability” and some clear standards in housing codes that insured the safety and health of lower income families. We still believe that, …
Forty-eight Years and ACORN Rolls On
New Orleans June 18th is ACORN’s birthday. Our staff policies still list it as a possible holiday that can be substituted for other dates if someone on staff had to work a holiday. On most birthdays nothing can be remembered by babies. The clock on a lifetime begins ticking with the official marking of time …