New Orleans In the more than a year that the ACORN Home Savers Campaign has built committees of owner-occupants in cities in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee to try to force companies to convert land contracts to ownership for the occupants, to renegotiate the terms, and bring homes up to standards, others …
Tag: affordable housing
The Scarring Neighborhood Blight without an Answer
Cleveland It is almost gospel among community organizations and their leadership to rehabilitate housing first and only demolish as a last resort. At the same time few community organizers have not heard the plea from their members that abandoned and derelict properties are huge issues for safety and home value and acted upon those demands. …
Discrimination is Running Rampant in Bank Lending
New Orleans One of the toughest questions I got on my road tour of six countries was essentially, “how does it feel to have to keep fighting to hold on to every victory against constant opposition,” or in other words how do we do the work when every victory involves constant struggle. My answer, most …