What does ACORN mean?
Thursday September 24, 2009
Not to long ago, I got a ton of emails re ACORN. I dismissed them, mostly because I didn’t know what ACORN meant nor if it had anything to do with Houston. I literally said, “What does ACORN mean?” at least twelve times last week.
I ended up checking it out a bit over these last few days and learned that (a) ACORN is a community activist group that provides free housing counseling to low to moderate income homebuyers, (b) they were recently burned big time when a video showed some of their employees instructing a “pimp” and a “prostitute” on some less than legal ways to handle a money dilemma, and (c) they, in fact, do have offices in Houston.
ACORN has been on a PR clean-up campaign as of late following the videos, and some Houston officials have been looking into actions of the ACORN offices in Houston. (Here’s a story the Chronicle ran about the situation.)

See the full article from “About – Cities & Towns”