New Orleans Recently I listened to the presentation of a fine group of graduate students at the School of Social Work at Georgia State University that summarized the results of four months of work in collaboration with the ACORN Home Savers Campaign. The report indicated the results were mixed. Our contact and outreach goals were …
Category: Foreclosure
Terrible Idea of the Day: Evict Public Housing Tenants!
New Orleans Almost everyone else in America knows that we have a national affordable housing crisis. Maybe someone in Washington could take a minute out of their day pop by or send an email to Dr. Ben Carson, the head of Trump’s Housing and Urban Development (HUD) operation responsible for housing and give him a …
Contract for Deed as a Non-Profit Affordable Housing Tool
New Orleans Thinking about how to open up a pool of potentially affordable housing to low-and-moderate income families, ACORN’s Home Savers Campaign has spent a lot of time visiting with people in various Midwestern cities trying to figure out a way to link abandoned housing stock in land banks with the potential for rehabilitation with …