Hamilton The ACORN Canada board and annual general meeting was in full force before the biennial convention was scheduled to begin in Hamilton, Ontario. Hamilton is a former steel-making, industrial city along Lake Ontario, roughly midway between Toronto, the queen city of Canada, and Buffalo, New York. Hamilton is having a revival of sorts, but that …
Tag: Rental housing
Corporate Ownership is Squeezing Rents in Some Cities
Milwaukee Looking city to city, part of what is driving rents up to record highs and exacerbating the affordable housing crisis is the critical intrusion of large corporate ownership of single-family homes in some markets in addition to larger developments where they have always been a factor. The ACORN Home Savers Campaign has monitored this …
Freddie Mac, Rent Controls and Predatory Contracts
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CORR4549.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans Freddie Mac is the popular name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company. It is a government sponsored entity or GSE. It’s main purpose since 1970 has been to buy and finance mortgages on the secondary market, making in safer for banks and savings …