New Orleans Catching up on Skype this week, it was great to hear the progress ACORN Bristol had made in the United Kingdom in advancing the campaign to win what they call an Ethical Letting Charter or a model set of standards for landlords and tenants. The campaign has been developing for months as …
Category: ACORN
Smaller Units, Common Spaces, Affordable Land, and Housing
New Orleans Recently we had one of those magical moments of organizational synergy when a new member working at the Gulf Coast head start facilities where we have a contract, signed up with Local 100 and her address indicated that she lived on Texas ACORN Street. We were excited because those streets in ACORN Glen, …
Visiting with the Old Hands: Sue Hanna Marquess and Melva Harmon
New Orleans For a couple hours it was a stroll down memory lane, first with lawyers from legal services in Arkansas where I had poached some of my first support from the idealistic and committed VISTA and Reginald Heber Smith lawyers there, and then with two of the VISTA women I had repurposed to work for …