Real Estate Wealth Taxes as a Anti-Gentrification Tool

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure

New Orleans   Recently I listened to an interview with a prominent local developer on WAMF in New Orleans as he was asked about gentrification.  He tried to walk the line between his self-interest and progressive values.  He was against displacement on one hand, but he opposed inclusionary zoning that would require developers to create affordable …

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The Condominium Doctrine

Ideas and Issues

New Orleans    Many presidents of the United States have been known throughout history for their foreign policy doctrines, good or bad. The Monroe Doctrine was a message to the world from one of our earliest presidents that we would stay out of European conflicts, but other nations needed to stay out of the North America …

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