Baton Rouge The session opened with welcome and good manners from the ACORN leaders from New Orleans. Each one said where they lived in New Orleans, identifying their wards and their homes, and then said where they lived now in Baton Rouge, Kenner, New Iberia, Dallas, Little Rock, or Houston. There was good heart to the …
Category: Financial Justice
Miles and Miles
New Orleans We left LSU’s Cook Center with 2 filled tour buses for the trip to New Orleans. Planners, architects, sociologists, developers, and a number of New Orleans evacuees all plopped into the seats filled with expectations. But even before we crossed into the parish after listening to everyone’s story on the bus, we knew this …
Webcasting the ACORN Rebuilding Conference
Baton Rouge Today (Monday) we will open up the ACORN Community Forum on Rebuilding New Orleans at the LSU Cook Conference Center. Within weeks of the hurricane we started reaching out to our friends and allies in the planning and architectural worlds with the hard questions — how do we rebuild New Orleans. Some of them …