by homeinc | May 19, 2021 | Blog
HOME, Inc. is proud to have partnered with the Many Hands Thrift Market in both Grimes & Clive. HOME, Inc. volunteers tabled from 9:00-5:00 on Saturday April 24th to raise awareness about the work that HOME, Inc. does in our community. The Many Hands Thrift Market...
by homeinc | May 12, 2021 | Blog
The second policy that we will discussing in our Racial Wealth Gap campaign is the Land Seizures policy. The Land Seizures policy was enacted in 1865, and still disproportionately affects Black Americans today. This policy allowed white Americans to declare Black...
by homeinc | May 5, 2021 | Blog
Tia Hebert is an essential member of our HOME, Inc. team. “I think the future is endless. We can expand services that are offered or start new services. Our new Executive Director will be the driving force behind the changes towards the future of HOME, Inc.” Tia is...
by homeinc | Apr 28, 2021 | Blog
The National Low Income Housing Coalition released its annual report, and the results are concerning, to say the least. The availability of affordable housing has always been an issue in the United States, but the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences on both our...
by homeinc | Apr 21, 2021 | Blog
Last month we began a blog campaign discussing the effects of racially motivated policy in Des Moines, today we will be focusing on our first policy in this series. Andrew Johnson’s Land Policies and Sharecropping: “After the Civil War, only 30,000 African...
