WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans These days sometimes you just have to pinch yourself in disbelief at the blatant impunity, heedless greed, and stark avarice practiced by some companies and professions willing without morals or mercy to put families in danger, physically and financially, by concealing risk. At least, that’s how I felt looking at the …
Pearl River Bill Pulte is the administrator of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the huge mortgage guarantors that are critical to the housing market and the ability of Americans to own and remain in their homes. Of course, he’s a Trump diehard, and that’s not the problem, …
New Orleans I made a smart decision to attend a workshop of renters’ rights in the United Kingdom at the ACORN England and Wales first convention in Bristol. I knew we had been a key part of a housing reform coalition and built strong alliances to get something through parliament under the new …