United States of America

Banks Threaten Elderly Veterans With Foreclosure in the USA

Published in Tuesday September 18th, 2012 In In the media

September 18, 2012 Robert Moses (pictured above) is 92, an African American and a World War II Navy veteran. Don Baird is a couple of weeks shy of his 90th birthday, is scheduled for heart surgery next week, and is also a World War II veteran. Aside from being former servicemen, both men also share one […]

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Exposure: Young and Homeless in the US

Published in Monday September 3rd, 2012 In In the media

August 31st, 2012 By CRAIG BLANKENHORN SADLY for the children across America who are homeless today, neither presidential campaign is expected to pay much attention to them, with big policy speeches or new ideas about improving their situation. There are 1.6 million homeless children in the United States. I want to be the witness to this, […]

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Post-Katrina Reforms in New Orleans Continue to Disenfranchise African-Americans, Poor

Published in Friday August 31st, 2012 In Opinion

August 29, 2012 Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a laboratory for government reforms. But the processes through which those experiments have been carried out have rarely been transparent or democratic, and they have often been divisive, pitting new residents against those who grew up here, rich against poor, and white against […]

Hurricane Isaac soaks Gulf Coast and tests New Orleans levees

Published in Wednesday August 29th, 2012 In In the media

Hurricane Isaac drove water over the top of a levee on the outskirts of New Orleans on Wednesday, but the multibillion-dollar barriers built to protect the city itself after the 2005 Katrina disaster were not breached, officials said. Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said about 2,000 residents of the area had been ordered to evacuate but only about half were confirmed to have gotten out before Isaac made landfall late on Tuesday.

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In Small Town in the US Hit by a Storm: Hope, Despair and a Mudfest

Published in Monday August 27th, 2012 In In the media

August 26, 2012 By NOAH ROSENBERG One house on Main Street here is not like the others. It seems to twist, stretch and taunt the fine line between hope and despair that has inextricably woven itself into the town fabric over the past year. This house, with its dormer windows still intact, looms tall — too […]

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United States: UN expert calls for consultations with indigenous peoples over private land sale in Black Hills, South Dakota

Published in Thursday August 23rd, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

August 22nd, 2012 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, urged today the United States Government and the local and state authorities in South Dakota to address concerns expressed by the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota peoples about an impending private land sale in the Black Hills region of the […]

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In the US, evacuations ordered; Wash. residents go home

Published in Monday August 20th, 2012 In In the media

August 19, 2012 Thunderstorms and lightning threatened fire officials’ plans to contain a large blaze in central Washington state as hundreds of Washington and California residents returned home to find out whether their homes were spared. In Idaho, authorities on Saturday issued a mandatory evacuation order for some 350 homes in the area around Featherville […]

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Repair New York City’s Housing Issues

Published in Tuesday August 14th, 2012 In In the media

August 13, 2012 More than 650,000 people live in housing that is controlled or subsidized by the New York City Housing Authority. Too many have to wait for months for needed repairs to leaking plumbing and other problems. In an estimated 10,000 apartments, repairs are not scheduled until 2014. This is clearly unacceptable. The question is […]

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In the US, California affordable housing projects suffer from loss of funding

Published in Monday August 13th, 2012 In In the media

August 12, 2012 By Alexandra Zavis and Jessica Garrison Duroville trailer park residents are among the victims of a loss of state and federal funding that affordable housing projects had historically relied on. Four years after a dilapidated Coachella Valley trailer park known as Duroville became a national symbol of slum housing, Riverside County officials […]

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In the US, the one housing solution left: mass mortgage refinancing

Published in Monday August 13th, 2012 In Opinion

August 12, 2012 By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ and MARK ZANDI MORE than four million Americans have lost their homes since the housing bubble began bursting six years ago. An additional 3.5 million homeowners are in the foreclosure process or are so delinquent on payments that they will be soon. With 13.5 million homeowners underwater — they owe more […]

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