New Orleans It often takes a village and the good will of many people continues to overwhelm in the rebuilding and recovery of New Orleans. A chance connection of old friends and schoolmates from Canada (thanks, Judy Duncan of ACORN Canada) led Nadine Gutz, the Sustainability Director for InterfaceFLOR, a top of the line, environmentally …
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The Return of Lending Discrimination by Banks
New Orleans Finally there is some small notice of the fact that banks are abandoning the poor and their neighborhoods. A report from the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) found that almost 1000 net branches had been lost in 2010. Certainly not surprising to anyone is that the loss has been much higher in lower …
Forty Years and Counting
New Orleans I was a couple of minutes late and walked into a speech by long time New Orleans community leader Beulah Laboistrie’s remarks about her decades of leadership in ACORN and now A Community Voice, which has arisen from the ashes of the organization in Louisiana, so I was looking sidelong at the …