Wall Street is Crippling the Single-Family Housing Market

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03102020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        The financial meltdown in the real estate market of 2007, marked by foreclosures triggered by speculation and broker scams and wiping out the citizen wealth of millions of families, continues to carry a legacy of community and family disasters.  Once again Wall Street and …

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The Good and Bad of Declining Home Ownership

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02102020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       Home ownership rates are declining globally for the first time in one-hundred years, while tenancy is rising.  I have mixed feelings about these trends. On the one hand, I hope that greater numbers of tenants equals more power in the bargains with landlords, and …

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