Milwaukee A funny thing happened on the way to the 2020 presidential primaries in the long shadow of the Great Recession of 2007: Democrats are finally discovering the tenants living right under their noses, and the fact that the American dream is no longer home ownership, it’s affordable housing. One candidate after another, elbowing to …
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Fighting the NIMBYs on Affordable Housing
New Orleans Sadly, it’s not just an aberration in my own neighborhood where bizarrely the “not in my back yard” crowd fought fiercely to block the return of affordable housing to a long established Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) site. It seems to be almost everywhere in big American cities with increasingly entitled, …
House Rich, Dirt Poor
New Orleans During farm crises, as prices get lower for crops and property taxes get higher, the old saying in rural areas about being “land rich, and dirt poor” comes to mind, especially in the states that have property taxes. Talking to a relative about his aging father’s house, he mentioned that his son would …