Gulfport Another day, another dollar, and again a judge, this time a federal one, pulls the rope up to ground again to take another small step in preventing the country from going to hell in a hand basket. The judge, Beryl Howell, of the prestigious U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, overturned a …
Tag: Section 8 housing
United Kingdom’s Bedroom Tax Invades America, Hitting New York City First
New Orleans In the year that I have traveled back and forth to England and Scotland, in talking to organizers, advocates, and activists involved in housing, there is no single issue of Prime Minister David Cameron’s brutal austerity program that continues to provoke more outrage and opposition than the so-called “bedroom tax” imposed on social …
Foote Homes: Better to Rehab than to Destroy – The Paradox of HUD Programs
Memphis After a 30-year HUD led program to obliterate public housing in the USA, there probably isn’t any more quixotic campaign than to try and save the “last public housing project in Memphis,” as Robert Lipscomb, head of the Memphis Public Housing Authority calls the 497 unit Foote Homes, but there I was huddled in …