Andy Bichlbaum is a co-founder of the Yes Men, which gives mainstream journalists humorous fodder for covering underserved issues. These days he is finishing a memoir about his relationship with his mother during the final years of her life, the lessons they both learned through her dementia, and his struggles to find her good care within the U.S. eldercare “system.” He is also helping to launch a low-income housing program in Tucson, Arizona.
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How an invasive weed could help Tucson rebuild from the ground up
An Arizona community’s plan to reuse an invasive weed to construct low-income housing shows that when we can’t pressure the top, we can rebuild from the bottom.
October 7, 2026
