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Final New Orleans Public Housing Redevelopment to Occur in 2012
The Housing Authority of New Orleans today received a $30.5 million federal grant that could drastically change a large portion of the city’s downtown. The grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development also seals the fate of the Iberville, the city’s last traditional public-housing development, which sits near the edge of the French Quarter.
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Tags: Ibervillepublic housingredevelopmentdowntown revitalization
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New Study on Public Housing Residents Six-Months After Demolitions
A study published last week from Georgia State University sheds some more light on how families and senior citizens are faring six months to one year after the demolition of their public housing neighborhoods. The study, titled Is the Grass Always Greener? looked at tenants in the Atlanta area to see where they were moving to and how they felt about their new neighborhoods. The study’s finding reflect a general trend in which residents are generally happier with the quality of their housing, but remain financially burdened and in neighborhoods with higher-than-average poverty.
Atlanta is an important study area because this year it will become the first city in the nation to eliminate traditional public housing.
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B.W. Cooper residents organize successfully for jobs in the rebuilding of their neighborhood
B.W. Cooper residents organize successfully for jobs in the rebuilding of their neighborhood
The New Orleans daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, reported today on some successes of ongoing organizing that residents of the BW Cooper public housing development have been pressing for over the past year: better wages and more jobs for residents in accordance with federal guidelines that govern the hiring of low-income and public housing residents for construction jobs in their communities. The article gives important recognition to STAND, an organizing project of the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice, which has been working with BW Cooper residents to accomplish these gains. Congratulations to them on these important gains, and hopefully more to come!S
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August 26, 2010
Affordable Housing
Iberville Redevelopment Quietly Begins
The Lens, an independent online publication in New Orleans, reports that plans have softly begun to redevelop the only remaining traditional public housing community, the Iberville Development.
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