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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Liberal Affordable Housing Conundrums

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11072019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans   Just maybe there is beginning to be an emerging consensus in the United States, joining many other countries around the world, that there is in fact an affordable housing crisis in the country.   Perhaps I should clarify this quickly.  Let’s say that among liberals there …

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Tenants Facing Big Issues in Sicily

ACORN ACORN International Community Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09232019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsCatania           We might have been having an espresso overlooking the working port of Catania with its tall grain towers and massive cruise ships crowding smaller fishing and pleasure boats, as many walked along the edge of the port to breathe in the sea air, but we were …

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