New Orleans In a meeting recently, I was asked who cares about providing affordable housing opportunities in rental and ownership markets for low-and-moderate income families, and after a nanosecond head scratch, I couldn’t help but reply, “just about nobody.” Two pieces in the daily papers speak to the crisis, and, just maybe, the opportunity that …
Category: Financial Justice
Quick Reopening of Schools is Key to Recovery if You Care about Your People
New Orleans The Houston Independent School District (HISD) has 287 schools. There are 20 school districts in Harris County. Our union represents school workers. We were on the phones with anyone we knew last week in Houston, calling our members to assess their situation and offer assistance in filling out FEMA forms or anything else …
Regulate Credit Agencies Now
New Orleans Believe it or not, Equifax, one of the three mega-data collecting credit agencies in the United States in their incredible laxness in handling the vital personal data of Americans allowed 143 million of them to hacked over a two-month period. They said nothing, and did just about nothing until disclosing the information. They …