New Orleans Josh Ishimatsu wrote an interesting piece for theRooflines blog managed by Shelterforce magazine that asks troubling questions about whether rapid development in the form of gentrification has outstripped community development efforts. He might have even gone farther and asked whether community development corporations have too often been the nonprofit stalking horses for …
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Smaller Units, Common Spaces, Affordable Land, and Housing
New Orleans Recently we had one of those magical moments of organizational synergy when a new member working at the Gulf Coast head start facilities where we have a contract, signed up with Local 100 and her address indicated that she lived on Texas ACORN Street. We were excited because those streets in ACORN Glen, …
Is Affordable Housing Being Crucified by Inequality
New Orleans Increasingly it seems that we are going to have to decouple the issue of home ownership and affordable housing at least in the traditional sense of small footprints in the dirt with picket fences around them. Home ownership due to harder loan standards, tighter credit, and the Great Recession has now fallen to …