{"id":463245,"date":"2010-03-23T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T20:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=14796"},"modified":"2010-03-23T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T20:33:16","slug":"where%e2%80%99s-acorn-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/463245","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s ACORN Chicago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago office for the community activist group, known as ACORN, seems to have disappeared.  In its place; a company called &#8220;Affordable Housing Centers of America&#8221;, located in the same office, with apparently many of the same employees, according to a woman sitting behind a desk there. The new name might be part of an overall rebranding of the embattled organization, which says it is disbanding.  <\/p>\n<p>              You can read more details here, in Fox correspondent Eric Shawn&#8217;s report: http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/03\/23\/acorn-swap\/<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago office seems to have, at one time, been the headquarters for ACORN Housing Inc., according to Matthew Vadum, of the Capital Research Center.  A company brochure says AHCOA is &#8220;a HUD approved housing counseling agency&#8221; with &#8220;access to 43 mortgage servicers&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p> Click here to see video of the Chicago new\/former office: <\/p>\n<div style='width:600px; text-align: center;'><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/publish.vidavee.com\/publish\/trh\/embedAsset.js?autoplay=off&#038;width=375&#038;height=212&#038;vtag=yes&#038;startVolume=50&#038;hidecontrolbar=no&#038;textureStrip=yes&#038;displayTime=yes&#038;volumeLock=no&#038;watermark=no&#038;loadStream=off&#038;dockey=F96B3339FD4D916F6FB9B55BA66B17D0&#038;originalMovieLink=http%3A%2F%2Fliveshots.blogs.foxnews.com%2F%3Fp%3D14796&#038;auth_base=s%3Dmpd%7Cd%3DF96B3339FD4D916F6FB9B55BA66B17D0%7Cts%3D1269451705%7Cttl%3D3600&#038;auth_sig=1f4506953f35d240469c138ef47a426c\"><\/script><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago office for the community activist group, known as ACORN, seems to have disappeared. In its place; a company called &#8220;Affordable Housing Centers of America&#8221;, located in the same office, with apparently many of the same employees, according to a woman sitting behind a desk there. The new name might be part of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}