Chicago When affordable housing is in the headlines, it’s a safe bet that it is not prompted by a concern for low-and-moderate income families, but maybe we can take a lemon and make it lemonade, as activists are doing in many cities. Here’s the context. According to Knight Frank, a London-based real-estate consultancy reported in …
Category: International
Good News for Mexican Workers on the Other Side of the Wall
New Orleans How about some good news for a change? Yes, I’m with you. I found some in a surprising place on the other side of the proposed wall between Mexico and the Untied States and in all places in Matamoros, right across the river from Brownsville, Texas. If you’ve ever been to Matamoros, you …
Facebook Playing Duck-and-Cover, Distraction, and Delay
Nashville Quit Facebook? How can we? There are countries ACORN works where Facebook and the internet are synonymous. We have learned how to use Facebook as an organizing tool in England in recruiting members to the ACORN Tenant Union. We use it as a communications tool in many of our organizing drives and campaigns. Facebook …