Indianapolis Saving money on the ticket I was flying out of Indianapolis and that meant joining the truck drivers and precious few others on the interstates and US highways in the middle of the night linking Detroit and Indianapolis, so I could beat the rain and make the plane. In one of our last meetings we …
Tag: Detroit
Detroit Paradox: People Who Need Houses and Houses that Need People
Detroit Rarely is there a day in organizing when each meeting seems to be with one person after another who is smart as a whip, committed all in, and shoulder to the wheel, as we found in Detroit, but rarely is there also a day in which each story sometimes seemed a version of Sisyphus …
Property Tax Delinquency Auctions as Ghetto Creators and People Removers
Atlanta Two of the most heartbreaking and moving injustices we stumbled on when the ACORN Home Savers Campaign teams were doorknocking families in contract buying agreements in Detroit involved property tax delinquency auctions. It was a scam facilitated directly by the Wayne County Treasurer’s office and other government officials. The easiest case for me to …