A new documentary tells the real story of the right’s attack on ACORN and what it portended.
John Atlas
John Atlas is president of the National Housing Institute (NHI), a nonprofit research and policy center that sponsors Shelterforce magazine.
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The Conservative Origins of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis
Everything you ever wanted to know about the mortgage meltdown but were afraid to ask.
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Waging Victory
On November 7, voters in six states — Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, and Ohio — approved measures to raise state minimum wage levels by $1 to $1.70 an hour and index them to inflation. These initiatives not only put more money into the pockets of low-income workers, they also increased voter turnout among urban […]
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Sowing Seeds
Last fall, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a national community-organizing group, sent 39-year-old organizer Brian Kettenring to Florida to lead a project to register low-income voters for the November 2 election by mounting a referendum to raise the state’s minimum wage to $6.15 an hour and index it yearly to inflation. […]
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From “Projects” to Communities: How to Redeem Public Housing
Saving public housing will require more than bootstrap lectures and selling off units to tenants. To transform housing projects into safe communities requires a new balance of rights and responsibilities—and real resources.