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Abandoned Communities: Detroit & New Orleans
New Orleans There is no question that Detroit has been an economically troubled city for some time now. Apocryphal, urban legends have grown around this great city of quail and bird counts...
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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Organizers Grow Up to be Developers
Waveland The activist and academically oriented quarterly journal, Social Policy, trades out subscriptions with a publication called Shelterforce, which, as the name indicates, specializes in...
View ArticleAffordable Housing Versus Any Housing at All
New Orleans There’s starting to be an emerging pressure confronting housing activists and organizations, or so it seems: the fight between affordable housing versus any housing at all. The fight is...
View ArticleHope for Cities or Just Developers?
New Orleans It seems like cities are starting to get more attention, and if that’s true, that’s a good thing, but reading a recent special feature on cities, it’s not something without contradictions...
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Real Estate Wealth Taxes as a Anti-Gentrification Tool
New Orleans Recently I listened to an interview with a prominent local developer on WAMF in New Orleans as he was asked about gentrification. He tried to walk the line between his self-interest and...
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Opportunity Zones Open the Door to More Rip-offs of the Poor
New Orleans The Trump-McConnell-Ryan tax giveaway of 2017 is a bad penny that just keeps coming up again and again. Although it was a stupendous tax break for corporations and the rich, the...
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Developers and their Fixers Hustle Tax Breaks and Opportunity Zones
New Orleans Sometimes secrets are hidden in the wide open as they were recently, thanks to the daily New York Times and Wall Street Journal, both of which were offering tips for developers and...
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