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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".

Tag: affordable housing

Houses aren’t Homes for the Flippers

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice April 10, 2019May 4, 2020 by digital

New Orleans       No matter how much sugar they put in your coffee, be very prepared to be worried about an additional trend in corporate housing speculation:  flipping is back, bad and hard! In a contradictory, “what me worry,” “how can this be bad” story in the Wall Street Journal the reporter noted that the …

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Inclusionary Zoning Lite and Little

ACORN ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice April 9, 2019April 10, 2019 by digital

New Orleans     Catching up on back papers I found both the interesting and the disappointing. Let’s start by keeping it positive and look at something called RentCheck, which is an application designed for tenants, but gaining some support by landlords, finding it useful enough that they have downloaded it in 40 US states and seven …

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Corporate Ownership is Squeezing Rents in Some Cities

ACORN Citizen Wealth April 5, 2019April 5, 2019 by digital

Milwaukee       Looking city to city, part of what is driving rents up to record highs and exacerbating the affordable housing crisis is the critical intrusion of large corporate ownership of single-family homes in some markets in addition to larger developments where they have always been a factor.  The ACORN Home Savers Campaign has monitored this …

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