Chicago When affordable housing is in the headlines, it’s a safe bet that it is not prompted by a concern for low-and-moderate income families, but maybe we can take a lemon and make it lemonade, as activists are doing in many cities. Here’s the context. According to Knight Frank, a London-based real-estate consultancy reported in …
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Listening to Tenants in North Dublin and Limerick
Limerick Hitting the ground in Dublin, Nick Ballard, ACORN UK head organizer, and I jumped in the car with Tomas O’Loingsigh and Seamus Farrell, and we were on our way to visit with activists at the Darndale housing estate in North Dublin. The social housing complex numbered over 5000 units stretched over quite a piece …
Roma Rising from Status as a Despised Minority
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Natalie-Jean-01-What-Would-You-Do-for-Love-200016389.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsSofia Bulgaria and other Eastern European and Balkan nations with significant populations of the Roma minority can easily be compared to African-Americans and their situation in the American South of fifty years ago. They are a despised minority that has begun to see some improvement after …