WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
June 25, 2021 Little Rock We have a forever long deal with Shelterforce, the housing journal, and Social Policy, the quarterly journal we publish, to share subscriptions. We mail them one and for a long time they mailed us one, although I can’t remember the last hard copy I received. Nonetheless, they send me regular …
March 7, 2021 Pearl River If you talk to many people in New Orleans who have been lifelong residents of the city, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — now more than fifteen years ago — is still an open sore and daily grievance. I was reminded of this stark reality while talking on Wade’s World to …
New Orleans Talking to Randy Shaw, tenant organizer and lawyer with the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, on Wade’s World about his new book, Generation Priced Out, he mentioned several steps that are worth research and action in cities everywhere facing gentrification. In fact, he emphasized several times that one of the things that …