Rental Rip-offs, Big, Small, and Dangerous

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11232019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      The rental market in the USA is the wild west.  Not the west where the “deer and the buffalo roam” and “the skies are never cloudy.”  That’s long gone.  The rental mark in America is now the wild west of HBO’s “Deadwood” and the …

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Plundering Black Wealth with Predatory Land Installment Contracts

ACORN Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11092019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsColumbus        An analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis on a panel with us at the Benjamin Hooks Institute at the University of Memphis listened to our remarks about the devastating impact of hedge funds and land installment contract companies in Memphis, and asked me …

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Hooks Institute for Social Change Looks at Memphis as a Tale of Two Nations: Rich & Poor

ACORN ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsMemphis       The Benjamin Hooks Institute for Social Change was established in 1996 by the University of Memphis and the late Benjamin Hooks, former president of the NAACP, originally from the city.  The Hooks Institute has a number of projects from documentaries to advancing the interests of …

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