New Orleans I wanted to share what I hoped was a simple story of one woman’s persistence prevailing over a giant, rogue company and the ineffectual enforcement by a city of its regulations governing the company. That story had as its activist, community hero a woman named Ada Phleger, a young attorney in the Federal …
Tag: affordable housing
Google Sidewalk Project is Still Too Sketchy and Undemocratic
New Orleans Maybe I should shut-up about the Sidewalk development project being proposed by Google in Toronto on 800-acres. ACORN and some of our allies went after them from the day they won the bid to submit proposals on the issue of the lack of affordable housing in a city that is caught in an …
Computerized House Flippers and Conflicting Interests
New Orleans It was bad enough when Wall Street sharpies like Blackstone started buying tranches of foreclosed houses in the suburbs to paint, rent, and then cash out. Now, algorithms are being deployed for house flippers. What could go right or wrong with this picture? A story in the Wall Street Journal claimed that …