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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02102020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Home ownership rates are declining globally for the first time in one-hundred years, while tenancy is rising. I have mixed feelings about these trends. On the one hand, I hope that greater numbers of tenants equals more power in the bargains with landlords, and …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Wades-World-102618.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans When I first read an email about Washington University’s law Professor Gerrit De Geest’s book, Rents: How Marketing Causes Inequality, I thought, right on! Soaring rents for tenants are absolutely driving inequality in city after city. Actually, looking at the book was different, but …
Little Rock One somewhat nagging problem the ACORN Home Savers Campaign has confronted over the last several years, especially when we looked at the frequency of “contracts-for-deed” was the lack of definitive data. Sure, we knew in Detroit that more contracts-for-deed were being registered under real estate transfers in recent years than were any form …