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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11272019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Not only have I believed there is a housing crisis, but I’ve said so repeatedly and at every opportunity I’ve been given. I’ve also argued that rents and evictions are rising at record levels. I haven’t been making any of this up. I’ve quoted …
San Francisco I have housing market fatigue. Everyone rich, poor, and in the middle have a housing prices horror story throughout northern California. No one seems untouched from the impact of this crisis, and it dominates almost every conversation. A friend told me she was visiting Birmingham for the first time to spent time with …
New Orleans Catching up on back papers I found both the interesting and the disappointing. Let’s start by keeping it positive and look at something called RentCheck, which is an application designed for tenants, but gaining some support by landlords, finding it useful enough that they have downloaded it in 40 US states and seven …