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".
May 31, 2021 Pearl River Rehabilitation of existing housing, or rehab for short, is the silver bullet that could make a huge dent in decent and affordable housing for low-and-moderate income families, and dramatically alter entire neighborhoods if such programs could be ratcheted up to scale. Single-family homes are not the answer to the affordable …
May 25, 2021 Atlanta Here’s a simple riddle: What is $51 billion dollars, larger than the entire budget of the federal Housing & Urban Development (HUD) agency, and invisible? The tragic answer: the tenant and landlord assistance from the various pandemic stimulus programs. The program and the money have become the stuff of urban legend. …
Seattle Flying into Seattle I had in my hands an article about neighborhoods in Seattle and how they influenced, and perhaps determined, the future of children raised in those neighborhoods. The article was based on Census data tracked assiduously by Bureau statisticians and researchers from Brown and Harvard Universities. When we think about predictive data, …