New Orleans Spoiler alert. There is not a happy ending to this story without wide scale change in inequality. Turns out that not only is the wealth and income gap destroying our democracy and much of the social fabric of our lives and communities, but it is also breeding infectious diseases that leap past the …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Apps for SNAP with Both Green and Yellow Lights Flashing
New Orleans An internet application that would allow food stamp recipients participating in SNAP, or Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program as the government calls it now, seems like a great idea. A Brooklyn-based startup called Propel created an app that allows recipients to check on their smartphones and see how much of their benefits they have …
Contract for Deed as a Non-Profit Affordable Housing Tool
New Orleans Thinking about how to open up a pool of potentially affordable housing to low-and-moderate income families, ACORN’s Home Savers Campaign has spent a lot of time visiting with people in various Midwestern cities trying to figure out a way to link abandoned housing stock in land banks with the potential for rehabilitation with …