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 There’s a stretch near Canal Street in New Orleans where I can’t get the signal as clearly from WAMF, our low power station, which focuses primarily on the downriver and eastern part of the city. I usually switch to the local NPR outlet for the end of my drive to the gym. Yesterday, …
New Orleans In some countries, like the United Kingdom, a significant part of ACORN’s work involves going toe to toe with real estate companies and their agencies, that are called “letting” agencies across the pond, as in “to let” or to rent. Like mortgage brokers in the home markets, these folks are often the behind-the-scenes facilitators and …
New Orleans A headline that promises to offer a “fix” for those of us who want affordable housing and healthcare has to rate as a “must read” in my book, but that’s just what seemed on offer in the New York Times. Reading the piece was also a short course in how difficult in …