April 5, 2021 New Orleans Once you start looking at property tax assessments, you don’t know what you might end up doing when the stark reality of the inequity of regressive taxation hits you full in the face. At least that’s what happened to us almost fifty years ago …
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Some Good News for Low-Income Families Hoping for Homes in Cincy & Detroit
New Orleans For lower income and working families in these days of escalating rents and no money flowing in the credit deserts, the old saying that if it “weren’t for bad news, there wouldn’t be any news at all” feels too much like an everyday story. In Detroit and Cincinnati recently, there was some good …
Detroit Paradox: People Who Need Houses and Houses that Need People
Detroit Rarely is there a day in organizing when each meeting seems to be with one person after another who is smart as a whip, committed all in, and shoulder to the wheel, as we found in Detroit, but rarely is there also a day in which each story sometimes seemed a version of Sisyphus …