Chicago When affordable housing is in the headlines, it’s a safe bet that it is not prompted by a concern for low-and-moderate income families, but maybe we can take a lemon and make it lemonade, as activists are doing in many cities. Here’s the context. According to Knight Frank, a London-based real-estate consultancy reported in …
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Community Organizing is on their Minds in Italy Too
New Orleans Changing planes between Tirana and Sofia, we ended up going through Rome. Miraculously, my phone was working, so I reached out for David Tozzo, head organizer of ACORN in Rome, and happened to catch him. It turned out that he was co-teaching a regular class on community organizing every other Saturday morning. …
Tenants Groups Coming Together in Dublin
Dublin From the bus stop in central Dublin until we reached the upstairs meeting space in the pub, we seemed to be on a tour of one housing struggle after another. We had our pictures taken by the inspirational statute of a famous labor leader on the main boulevard of Dublin. We had a …