Blocking Renovictions: A New Anti-Gentrification Tool

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lost-Leaders-01-Extra-Ordinary-200013687.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsFrankfurt      New West, a low-and-moderate income family suburb abutting Vancouver, British Columbia, is becoming ground zero for new policies to prevent gentrification and displacement in Canada, and perhaps globally with the passage of its latest city bylaw.  With housing prices averaging over $1 million in Vancouver every …

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The Cracks in the Eviction Lab Wall are Undercounting the Crisis

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure

New Orleans   When Princeton’s Eviction Lab came out with their national report on many jurisdictions court records of evictions, we had positive things to say about the project, but we were skeptical.  The report seemed to undercount the experience in the community of ACORN Home Savers Campaign.  A critical flaw seemed to be the very …

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