Visa, Mastercard, Cash or Your Home:  Asset Forfeiture

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans    There are not a huge number of issues where there is bipartisan agreement, but over the last five years the widespread reports of abuse in civil asset forfeiture have achieved that rarity.  The original policy rationalization for seizing property was based on the recovery ill-gotten …

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If There Isn’t A Housing Crisis, Why Does It Feel Like One?

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11272019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       Not only have I believed there is a housing crisis, but I’ve said so repeatedly and at every opportunity I’ve been given.  I’ve also argued that rents and evictions are rising at record levels.  I haven’t been making any of this up.  I’ve quoted …

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