Freddie Mac, Rent Controls and Predatory Contracts

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CORR4549.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans  Freddie Mac is the popular name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company.  It is a government sponsored entity or GSE.  It’s main purpose since 1970 has been to buy and finance mortgages on the secondary market, making in safer for banks and savings …

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Ripping Off Citizens and Hornswoggling Community Groups by the Rich in Cleveland

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

New Orleans        Almost a year ago in Fall 2017 issue of Social Policy (v.47#3), we published a long article by veteran local organizer Randy Cunningham entitled “Doing the Unthinkable in Cleveland, Ohio” that detailed the tragic story of defeat being pulled out of the jaws of victory in a huge fight over upgrading the …

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New Zealand for All of Us: Maori, Equal Pay, and More – Part II

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Labor Organizing

Don’t get me wrong, New Zealand is no perfect pearl.  There’s a bounty of issues.  Inequality is rising dramatically.  Sprawl around Auckland is a huge issue.  Environmental impacts on some of the island is devastating.  There are interesting signs of progress though, and they are worth looking at closely. There are too many reminders of …

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