The NY Post brings us news of one of NYC's biggest landlords, the seriously embattled "community organizing" outfit called ACORN:ACORN has quietly become one of the Big Apple's biggest owners of low- and moderate-income housing, amassing a real-estate empire worth at least $50 million, The Post has learned. New York ACORN and a tangled web of affiliates own or manage nearly 1,500 housing units across three boroughs and draw in an estimated $5.7 million in rents, fees and profits from sales. The properties are controlled by an opaque collection of nonprofits, holding companies and development funds. Many have generic names, like the 385 Palmetto Street Housing Development Fund or the Mutual Housing Association of New York, leaving no clue of their ties to the national ACORN conglomerate.h/t:Lucianne.comJOM poster Janet commenting on the ACORN scandal brings to our attention the words of 19th century French savant Frederick Bastiat:"Organizers of...(Read Full Post)