Cleveland It is almost gospel among community organizations and their leadership to rehabilitate housing first and only demolish as a last resort. At the same time few community organizers have not heard the plea from their members that abandoned and derelict properties are huge issues for safety and home value and acted upon those demands. …
Category: Financial Justice
The Color Barrier for Black Men is Mile High Preventing Equality
New Orleans An exhaustive study of Census Bureau figures for 20 million people now in their late 30s by researchers from Stanford and Harvard has produced some terrible facts that establish firm proof behind what many have suspected: race is ubiquitous in oppressing and institutionalizing inequality among African-American men. As a community organizer, one of …
Banks, Too Big to Fail, but Too Small to Regulate, Huh?
Biloxi Once upon a time in America, and much of the world, there was a reliable way to identify a populist. The litmus test was their view of banks. If they saw them as somewhere between a criminal enterprise and a bunch of blood suckers, then the odds were good that they were populists. If …