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 …
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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 …
The Political and Organizational Problem of Imperfect Incumbents
Detroit The Working Families Party is a ballot line party in New York State that ACORN helped found and with different hats has supported consistently as a way to count our members votes more vividly and express our issues in a political form more powerfully. In New York and several other states fusion is legal, …