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 …
Category: ACORN
Getting an Education on Habitat for Humanity Houses
New Orleans In Vancouver recently I made a point about the overheated housing market there by noting that I had read that a Habitat for Humanity house had sold for $330,000, which to me seemed absurdly high from what I thought I understood about the sweat equity and low-cost building model for Habitat houses. Turned …
What Happened to the New Poor Peoples’ Campaign?
New Orleans We are in the thick of the forty days of week by week protests called to take place around the country by the Poor Peoples’ Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival. After huge pre-campaign publicity that included a lengthy profile of the campaign’s leader, North Carolina’s Rev. William Barber, in The New Yorker …