New Orleans Part of the digital divide crushing lower income families turns out to be the slick way that law firms and others have been exploiting the court system to harass people with credit problems and then pile on more debt, fees, and collection charges by automating the process. In the same way that bottom …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Time Banking
Detroit This was going to be an interesting evening: barbecue, beer, and a wide circle of 25 plus people talking about Citizen Wealth and how to built more sustainable organizations and create social movements. Kim Hodge, the director of Michigan Timebanks, had taken the initiative to put the people, party, and dialogue together to link …
Foreclosures Yes, Modifications No
Phoenix The government has a website that publishes the miserable statistics and farcical jokes behind the foreclosure modification programs which is called Making Housing Affordable. Some government wag must have seen the billboard we drove past in Phoenix yesterday advertising new houses with the line: selling at “foreclosure prices.” I guess their idea of a …