Louisville When it’s good for the hedge funds and real estate investment trusts (REITs), it’s almost never good for the rest of us, especially the beleaguered renters of America or anyone trying to move the next step to buy a home or get a mortgage. Blackstone, the mega-private equity fund, cashed in once again on …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Colleges Are Key for Wages and We’re Failing Students
New Orleans Living in the southern and western states in the United States, sometimes it seems we just can’t catch a break. Back to back analyses of critical income factors in the papers spell trouble on multiple fronts. Walk with me on this a while. More people are leaving a majority of the largest metropolitan …
Fighting the NIMBYs on Affordable Housing
New Orleans Sadly, it’s not just an aberration in my own neighborhood where bizarrely the “not in my back yard” crowd fought fiercely to block the return of affordable housing to a long established Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) site. It seems to be almost everywhere in big American cities with increasingly entitled, …