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 When I wrote Citizen Wealth, published in 2009, I proudly recorded the role that ACORN played in increasing the homeownership rate of Black and Hispanic Americans over a period of thirty-years between 1977-78 and 2007-2008. We had fought, along with many others, for the legislation in Congress that passed the Community Reinvestment …
Pearl River Talking to Sydnee Blum, ACORN’s head organizer in eastern Canada on Wade’s World , she told a shocking story of a member in one of the neighborhoods who was paying rent of $1000 CN per month. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, landlords can only raise rent once per year. She got a notice of …