New Orleans When Princeton’s Eviction Lab came out with their national report on many jurisdictions court records of evictions, we had positive things to say about the project, but we were skeptical. The report seemed to undercount the experience in the community of ACORN Home Savers Campaign. A critical flaw seemed to be the very …
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Hurricane Harvey, One Year Later
New Orleans Given Houston’s experiences with its own flooding and hurricanes and its welcoming and sheltering of thousands after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it would have seemed safe to assume that if any city could respond well to disaster, it must be Houston. A year after Hurricane Harvey, the answer is clear: not Houston …
Sketchy Financing for Apartments and Private Markets Seems Like Deja Vu
Sonoma Ten years on from the Great Recession of 2008, you wonder what we learned from that crisis, and who really learned it. I mean really learned it! Here’s a couple of scary examples that I’ll share in the “misery loves company” vein: In the “who’s on first, what’s on second” vein, get this. The …