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ACORN Facing Significant Problems
With state and local chapters of ACORN all over the country considering forming their own groups as the national organizing feels the effects of...
ACORN Organizes Public Housing Residents
As the ACORN Tenant Union comes near to completing its first full year of organizing public housing residents, with 150 developments organized representing some...
ACORN and the Media
You might have seen Peter Dreier, NHI board member, and the director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College on Rachel...
Don’t Just Investigate, Apply the ACORN Rule
When ACORN, a community organizing anti-poverty group, was stripped of federal funds after (false) accusations of voter fraud were pushed...
The People Shall Rule
On April 13th, 1999, as the precinct workers brought in their tapes from the voting machines in Chicago's 15th ward, the first returns for...
Gaining Ground by Holding Back
Late last year, St. Louis ACORN members learned that Regional Hospital – the city's only "safety net" hospital that guaranteed care regardless of ability...
The Rise and Fall of the National Tenants Union
The National Tenants Union fought for tenant rights in the 1970s and early 1980s. One of the union’s founders reflects on the organization and what we might learn from those times.
How Atlantic Yards Failed to Deliver Affordable Homeownership (With a Hakeem...
Atlantic Yards demonstrates that developers' promises must be backed up in contracts, otherwise economic and political cycles can undermine them.
Homesteading Program, Chicago
Single-Family Community Land Trust Housing
Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, harboring hundreds of community developers and organizers. When faced with widespread disinvestment in the...
Mock the Vote
Since the Justice Department axed nine U.S. attorneys, all eyes have been on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, but the scandal began with a GOP strategy to stifle grass-roots registration of poor minority voters.
ACORN’s Home Defenders
Should have posted this sooner, but here’s interesting <a href="http://acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews=12387&cHash=933307a56f
ACORN members in 16 kicked off the “Home Staying Campaign the week of February 23....
In Red State Florida, Victory for Working People
While 52 percent of Floridians voted for George Bush in the November election, 72 percent backed a Bush-unfriendly ballot initiative: a constitutional amendment raising...
John Atlas
John Atlas is a founder of Shelterforce and board chair emeritus. He is the producer of ACORN and the Firestorm, a film directed by...
Organizing Nationally to Win Locally: Faith-Based Community Organizing’s New Frontier
Over the past few years faith-based organizing networks have broken onto the national organizing scene, adding grass-roots power and issue expertise to some of the biggest problems of the day.
Deflating a GOP Double Standard
After the sequester cut teaching jobs, Head Start spots, senior food programs, and access to nutrition assistance for over half...
The Elements of Success
What follows is a discussion of the important, parallel elements that emerged from the six successful cases in this report, from NHI's conference, from...
Another Tired Argument Against ACORN
It’s not news in the most literal sense (you know, revelatory, fresh, etc.), but AP reports this week that conservatives are, once again, tacking...
NHI’s John Atlas to Discuss New ACORN Book
John Atlas, a founder of the National Housing Institute and Shelterforce, will appear today in the 1 p.m. hour (eastern) on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate...
History Shows that in Times of Crisis, Housing Activists Get Radical
A recent spate of vacant home occupations echo squatters campaigns of the past.
Financial Implosion: 2nd Chance for Progressive Banking Reform?
When present and former public officials ranging from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary under President Clinton, started...