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 My 15-year-old Australian Shepherd Lucha and I walk every morning before dawn when I’m home. We have a fixed route Monday through Friday, which we vary on Wednesday, turning left, rather than right, at the dead end at the Mississippi River levee. Whenever I have been out of town, even for …
Montreal The global affordable housing crisis largely continues unchecked, with more people looking and fewer finding, as prices rise and access decreases. Developers rush to build high-end luxury properties and demand extensive incentives and subsidies for affordable complexes. dampening supply. With real estate interests often virtually owning politicians, tenants struggle to get protections. Organizing …
Montreal Listening to the reports from all of the offices around Canada where ACORN Canada is organizing is always a treat in their Year End / Year Begin meeting. Every year it seems there are more unusual issues, as well as dramatic progress on longtime campaigns, as the organization and its successes spread around …