Dallas Sometimes if you can’t be good at least hope you’re lucky. Once we were on the ground in Paraguay, we were hustling to fill up the dance card of our agenda with meetings. We had heard the name of a group that was called Techo that was involved in housing. Ok, sounds good, and …
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Redevelopment, Resettlement, and the Right to the City
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cat-Power-01-Woman-feat.-Lana-Del-Rey-3331841.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAsuncion There are more than 500,000 people living in the Asuncion, the capital and largest city in Paraguay, with 30% of the country’s population located in the metro area. In meetings with Habitat Paraguay, Banco Alimentos, and Oxfam Paraguay we heard a lot about the challenges …
The Census and Contracts-for-Deed
Little Rock One somewhat nagging problem the ACORN Home Savers Campaign has confronted over the last several years, especially when we looked at the frequency of “contracts-for-deed” was the lack of definitive data. Sure, we knew in Detroit that more contracts-for-deed were being registered under real estate transfers in recent years than were any form …