Grenoble Every four years social housing tenants in France have the opportunity to run for seats on the board of their city’s housing authority. Admittedly, the seats allotted for tenant representation are a minority of the board positions, because in France, as elsewhere, a voice for tenants is preferable to allowing real power for tenants. …
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Action Wins in Grenoble
Grenoble On my whistle stop tour of almost all of our offices in France and the United Kingdom, of course my first stop had to be in Grenoble. It seemed like I was in store for a heat wave as the temperature was predicted at over freezing for my first time in over a week. …
The Pleasures of Meeting with Local Leaders
Grenoble Your average person on the street would say that sitting in a meeting for a couple of hours conducted in a foreign language with only occasional translation would be right there on the list with watching paint dry, but they would be wrong. For perhaps the fourth time in the last two years I …