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Save Public Housing in New Orleans

Amy Goodmand Democracy Now
 Democracy Now! coverage

The Battle Over New Orleans Public Housing

This is My Home

Dolan Media Newswire Story

Locking out New Orleans' poor (Salon)

H.O.P.E.- Housing Opportunities For People
Everywhere - the St. Bernard

HANO to demolish New Orleans Public Housing video

Images: Public Housing In New Orleans

 

COALITION TO STOP THE DEMOLITION

Goals: 1) No Demolition until 1:1 replacement is guaranteed 2) Resident participation in any redevelopment planning

Organizational Endorsements:

  1. Advocates for Environmental Human Rights

  2. Agenda for Children

  3. African American Leadership Project (AALP)

  4. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of New Orleans

  5. Amnesty International USA

  6. Anti Racism Working Group

  7. Ashe Cultural Arts Center

  8. The Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America

  9. Black Love Movement

  10. Center for Empowered Decision Making

  11. Central City Partnership

  12. Christian Unity Baptist Church

  13. Churches Supporting Churches

  14. Common Ground Health Clinic

  15. Craige Cultural Center

  16. Critical Resistance New Orleans

  17. C3 Hands Off Iberville

  18. Ebenezer Baptist Church

  19. European Dissent

  20. Faith in Action Evangelistic Team

  21. Faith Temple Church of God the Holy Ghost Center, New Orleans

  22. First United Baptist Church

  23. FYRE Youth Squad

  24. Gert Town Revival Initiative, Inc.,

  25. Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center

  26. Hope House

  27. INCITE! New Orleans

  28. Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies

  29. Left Turn Magazine

  30. Louisiana Justice Institute

  31. Louisiana Unity Coalition on Black Civic Participation

  32. Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

  33. Mennonite Central Committee—New Orleans

  34. Mennonite Disaster Service

  35. Millions More Movement

  36. Moving Forward Gulf Coast, Inc.

  37. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

  38. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

  39. National Coalition on Black Civic Participation

  40. The National Hip Hop Political Convention

  41. National Trust for Historic Preservation

  42. New Orleans Interfaith Worker Justice

  43. New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival

  44. New Orleans Women's Health & Justice Initiative

  45. New Orleans Women's Health Clinic

  46. New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice

  47. Nuthinbutfire Records

  48. Pax Christi—New Orleans

  49. Peoples’ Hurricane Relief Fund

  50. People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond

  51. The Praxis Project

  52. The Renaissance Project

  53. Restaurant Opportunities Center—New Orleans

  54. Safe Streets Strong Communities

  55. Situations: Project for the Radical Imagination

  56. Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  57. Total Community Action Faith Collaborative

  58. Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice

  59. United Teachers of New Orleans

  60. Welfare Rights Organization

  61. Youth Inspirational Connection, Inc,

  62. Youth Media Council

Additional organizations have endorsed the Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007 (S.1668), which would provide that no demolition shall occur until HUD devises a plan to replace all of the units that would be demolished.

The list can be found here


The following slide shows are an overview of Public Housing in New Orleans. They juxtapose the massive amounts of empty land that exists where once stood public housing meanwhile tent cities currently exist under threat (some having already been forcibly removed).

Here we can clearly see that HANO and HUD's plans to demolish the sites of Lafitte, St. Bernard, CJ Peete, and BW Cooper, comes at a time when:

  1. housing is of a vital necessity in the city of New Orleans and
  2. there is plenty of vacant land, that is already allotted for public housing available for building and development, RIGHT NOW.

Open Show:

 

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