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New Orleans April 2008... Public Housing Update and other New Orleans stories ........Lower Ninth Ward........Jazzfest

April, 2007: St. Bernard Housing Project is now being demolisthed. HUD ordered this project and 3 others to be torn down. The city of New Orleans approved the demolitions. 5800 families once lived in the 4 projects. Residents put up a fierce resistance.

See my previous stories about Public Housing

June 2006

December 2007

St. Thomas Housing project in Uptown is offered as a model of mixed income housing.
David, a man with a Musician's Village display near Musician's Village
Our 2008 Jazzfest group, a small one this year.
Habitat for Humanity's Musician's Village for Obama
A preJazzfest event in the French Quarter
David and his wacky Nawlins near Musician's Village
The Missississippi River has risen to dangerous heights this spring.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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