Infamous New Orleans ACORN HQ SOLD!

Anyone in the market for a creepy former funeral home whose major claim to fame is miraculously housing over 200 organizations?  Word is, you’re out of luck.

Apparently an offer has been accepted for ACORN’s long-time headquarters on Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans, on the edge of the 9th Ward.  SEIU 100, which Rathke founded, was also headquartered in that building.

I visited that location in late July to see it for myself, as a colleague and I were in town to attend a Wade Rathke book signing that evening.  Because of our straight-forward questions and unedited answers, Wade Rathke called us “Infiltrators.”

Upon seeing the building for sale (which he had seen in b-roll video footage before), we check out the listing on the website of French Quarter Realty.  Other information can be found at Realtor.com, which basically a massive nation-wide Multiple Listing Service.

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