New Orleans The House directory may say that Bob Goodlatte is the elected Representative from Virginia and now, thanks to the drift of time and the Republican seizure of control of the Congress, he is also Chair of the Judiciary Committee. Regardless of what the directory says though, Goodlatte is quickly proving he may have …
Category: Financial Justice
Local Jails are the Modern Debtors’ Prison
New Orleans The Vera Institute for Justice based in New York and operating for more than 50 years all around the United States and in some other countries released a report entitled Incarceration’s Front Door: The Misuse of Jails in America. The title is its own thumbnail summary. The bottom line being that too many …
Is Affordable Housing Being Crucified by Inequality
New Orleans Increasingly it seems that we are going to have to decouple the issue of home ownership and affordable housing at least in the traditional sense of small footprints in the dirt with picket fences around them. Home ownership due to harder loan standards, tighter credit, and the Great Recession has now fallen to …