New Orleans When we can muster up the attention span to read past the latest Mueller investigation activity and the Trump tantrums, we can see what Congress is doing to try to make life easier for the banks and gut Dodd-Frank requirements that force them to pay more attention in class rather than going the …
Category: ACORN
National Eviction Crisis Finally in the Headlines
New Orleans In the ACORN Home Savers Campaign we’ve learned a lot about the contemporary issues for lower income families struggling with the potentially predatory nature of land contracts as a route to home ownership, but in doing the organizing we have been constantly confronted with the reality that the real trigger for forcing people …
Land Contract Companies Settle Lawsuits in Cincinnati Without Celebrations
New Orleans In the more than a year that the ACORN Home Savers Campaign has built committees of owner-occupants in cities in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee to try to force companies to convert land contracts to ownership for the occupants, to renegotiate the terms, and bring homes up to standards, others …