New Housing Law in New York Having Huge Impact on Tenant Evictions

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12042019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       The Wall Street Journal and its reporters must get a special thrill when they can score an exclusive on the New York Times on New York’s own turf.  I bet they didn’t even care when they went out to celebrate last week at their …

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Land Contracts Are Back in the Census

ACORN

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans         All of the controversy on questions in the 2020 American Community Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, has been about whether a question would be allowed about citizenship.  The federal courts pretty much slammed the door on that question when one judge after …

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Rental Rip-offs, Big, Small, and Dangerous

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11232019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      The rental market in the USA is the wild west.  Not the west where the “deer and the buffalo roam” and “the skies are never cloudy.”  That’s long gone.  The rental mark in America is now the wild west of HBO’s “Deadwood” and the …

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