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 …
Category: ACORN
Is Gentrification Inevitable?
New Orleans Being on the wrong side of the tracks as I tried to beat the train to get to my office in time for a live radio show, I ended up driving from street to street to beat the traffic lined up to enter a road that traversed the tracks. Weaving in and out …
Hiding Real Estate Ownership from Tenants and Land Contract Holders
New Orleans Recently I listened to the presentation of a fine group of graduate students at the School of Social Work at Georgia State University that summarized the results of four months of work in collaboration with the ACORN Home Savers Campaign. The report indicated the results were mixed. Our contact and outreach goals were …