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, …
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The Increasing and Persistent Gap between Black and White Homeownership
Detroit The widening gap between black and white homeownership didn’t happen by accident. There is abundant evidence and little debate that the gap was the result of historic discrimination enforced by federal policies, state laws, and local ordinances. Even as ownership rates increased for minority homeowners over a 40-year period thanks to persistent work, legal …
Eviction Statistics are Tricky, so Be Careful of First Impressions
Detroit I was scratching my head. Everything the ACORN Home Savers Campaign knew from our experiences in building committees in cities around the country and talking to renters and land purchase contract signers indicated that evictions and the threat of evictions were soaring. In fact, in no small measure that was what was driving families …