London Going to Austin, Texas from time to time, you still see bumper stickers and window signs in this huge, boomtown that still say, “Keep Austin Weird.” At least with politics there’s no need for a bumper sticker, because these days it seems all about making sure politics is weird. In the United Kingdom, the …
Category: International
Progress on “Living Rent” in Scotland
Edinburgh In the wake of the Scottish independence vote a bit more than a year ago, a coalition came together that included ACORN Scotland, EPTAG – the Edinburgh Private Tenants’ Action Group, an ACORN affiliate, the Scottish Student Union and others to form what we called the Living Rent Campaign. The demands were not new, …
Banks are Building “Credit Deserts” in Birmingham and Elsewhere
Edinburgh We have real deserts like Sahara, the Gobi, Mohave, or Chihuahuan in the world. We have food “deserts” in many lower income communities with little choice but mom-and-pops, corner stores, kiosks, and bodegas to serve millions. Now there’s increasing evidence that banks have been allowed to build “credit deserts” in many cities, and work …