New Orleans Living in the southern and western states in the United States, sometimes it seems we just can’t catch a break. Back to back analyses of critical income factors in the papers spell trouble on multiple fronts. Walk with me on this a while. More people are leaving a majority of the largest metropolitan …
Category: Financial Justice
Fighting the NIMBYs on Affordable Housing
New Orleans Sadly, it’s not just an aberration in my own neighborhood where bizarrely the “not in my back yard” crowd fought fiercely to block the return of affordable housing to a long established Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) site. It seems to be almost everywhere in big American cities with increasingly entitled, …
Jiggering Tuition Costs to Employment Yield
New Orleans Thinking about student loan debt and the soaring costs of university education is interesting, even if it almost guarantees a migraine or a pain on the south side. The backstory runs in several channels. The huge gift at Morehouse College by billionaire Robert Smith and his offer to pay the student debt …