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Housing
 ACORN (Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
works in more than 75 cities across the United States to improve housing
conditions for the economically disadvantaged, increase community safety,
secure living wages for all workers and improve the quality of local
schools. ACORN members participate in local meetings and actively work on
campaigns, elect leadership from the neighborhood level up, and pay the
organizations core expenses through membership dues and grassroots
fundraisers.
New Orleans ACORN
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| November 22nd, members of
the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association |
Acorn wins
victory on Evictions New Orleans renters, won a victory on the tenant rights front. On behalf of ACORN, Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund, UNITE HERE, SEIU, and New Orleans renters, Advancement Project obtained a favorable settlement in a lawsuit challenging evictions of tenants from rental properties in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes. |
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Katrina survivors contact the Baton Rouge ACORN |
 November 7th and 8th, Hurricane Katrina survivors joined urban planners, architects, and affordable housing specialists in Baton Rouge to start planning for the future of New Orleans. Watch web cast of Acorn's Community Forums |
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| Organizing around Housing, Social Justice, Empowering people in their communities | ||
| Acorn Plan for New Orleans Rebuild |
Read the Plan Contact Acorn to get involved |
While the Forum attendance remains limited to invited representatives, The entire event will be webcast and everyone is welcome to attend or sponsor a live webcast to tune in to the ongoing conversation. |
| Early Response -Article where Acorn reaches to folks in shelters | ||
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Post Storm and
Organizing--Shelter Outreach Harris tells them ACORN can help them find housing wherever they land. She takes down their names and phone numbers. On her way back to the car, she says that she knows everyone has tough choices to make, but it's difficult talking to people who are moving on. "Decisions are being made all around us," she says. "I want us to go back to fight." read the entire story here!
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