New Orleans We have not talked about it much recently, but 5 days of every week we have continued to send out 3 or 4 gutting crews a day to clean-out houses for people in New Orleans on the ACORN list who want to come home. What the NCAA basketball championships see as “March Madness,” …
Category: Rebuild New Orleans
Undercover Recovery
New Orleans Here is a mystery. A week ago we were visiting the revisionist look at Robert Moses, the master builder of New York and elsewhere. He dashed his feet on many stones including his unwillingness to abide democratic norms or anything like transparency or accountability. Though more than 30 years ago, I would think we …
Two hundred twenty-five houses
New York Cornell has a nice space on W. 17th and in order to both thank all of the people who had been of such great help in the wake of Katrina among planners, architects, students, funders, banks, and friends who have composed the great ACORN partnership with the universities, particularly Cornell, Columbia, Pratt Center, …