http://www.inthesetimes.com/archives/tags/housing/ In These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter. en-us Expression Engine jessica@inthesetimes.com seamus@inthesetimes.com Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3504/first_came_katrina_then_came_hud/ The temperature in New Orleans was uncharacteristically cold in mid-December, dipping into the 30s. As thousands of homeless people living in encampments huddled in blankets, housing activists from around the country converged on the city to protest the demolition of more than 4,500 units of public housing, once at the epicenter of New Orleans' low-income African-American community. In late November, the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) had approved $30 million in contracts to demolish the B.W. Cooper, C.J. Peete, Lafitte and St. Bernard projects. Public housing residents, lawyers, religious leaders and activists who attempted to stop the demolitions met police head on. But their efforts succeeded in delaying some demolition and gaining significant national support. On Dec. 20, however,… housing natural disasters new orleans David Moberg Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3932/the_700_billion_questions/ If a museum in the next superpower nation ever commemorates the decline of the last great superpower, it will make the two-and-a-half page bill introduced this week the center of the display. Just as they do today at the National Archives' Declaration of Independence exhibit, tourists in the future--perhaps in Beijing, perhaps somewhere else--will line up to see a framed draft of this week's White House legislation demanding Congress surrender its power of the purse, and give an unelected appointee--in this case, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson--the power to hand over $700 billion of taxpayer money to "any financial institution," "without limitation...on such terms and conditions as determined by [him]." In a nation priding itself on separating powers between the branches… Wall Street housing crisis David Moberg