New Orleans The Republican tax bill is all over but the shouting, and that will last for a long, long time. Given the unpopularity of the bill in all of the polls, it will reverberate into the 2018 midterm elections, possibly flipping control of Congress, and likely will still be an issue for many in …
Category: Financial Justice
The Contradictions Embedded in East Cleveland
Cleveland In several meetings with community development and housing experts in Cleveland, they kept pointing us east. Not just to the east side of Cleveland which had historically housed the largest African-American communities in the city, but to the near suburb and separate city of East Cleveland, so with an organizer from ACORN Canada’s Ottawa …
Cleveland’s Dilemma: Rehab or Demo
Cleveland Every month in Cleveland, the Vacant & Abandoned Property Action Council, convenes. All the seats around the giant meeting room of the Neighborhood Housing Services were filled with rows of chairs surrounding them, packed as well. Sandwiches and cookies were available, but this was not a group of people who were there for the …