ACORN
The Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) will no longer darken the housing industry any longer.
Last September, videos emerged online of ACORN workers allegedly giving some fraudulent advice to filmmaker James O’Keefe and his associate, Hannah Giles.
House Republicans immediately investigated how Acorn’s political arm was funded.
Republican investigators on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee determined that there were no firewalls” between Acorn’s federally subsidized housing activities and its political wings.
Officials of Acorn Housing, created by the main Acorn group in the mid-1980s, have said they had a separate board and budget, though the two organizations shared office space in some cities.
Congress last year cut off federal funding for Acorn Housing. Federal money last year provided about three-quarters of the group’s budget of $24 million.
An offshoot formerly known as Acorn Housing, which counsels low-income homeowners, has changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America and plans to continue operations.
