Documents:

Facts vs. Myths

Demolition fact-sheet

Update 11/29

San Francisco Labor Council Resolution

Busting Vitter's Myths

Amy Goodmand Democracy Now
Democracy Now coverage

Links:

Justice for New Orleans

New Orleans Indymedia

SF Bay View

Lakewood-Colorado-Payday.Loan - fast money with any credit score in USA

Dolan Media Newswire Story

Locking out New Orleans' poor (Salon)

Media:

The Battle Over New Orleans Public Housing

This is My Home

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

HANO to demolish New Orleans Public Housing video

Save Public Housing in New Orleans

Housing Images

 

Over 100 regional and national organizations oppose demolition:

Gulf Coast and Regional Organizations:

Acadiana Regional Coalition on Housing & Homelessness (ARCH)

Acadiana Regional Development District

ACLU of Mississippi

Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice

Alabama Arise

Armstrong Family Services

Association of Family Fishermen

Back Bay Mission

Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing (BISCO)

Boat People SOS

Catholic Charities, New Orleans

Center for Fair Housing, Inc.

Chamber Southwest Louisiana

Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities of Mississippi

Coastal Women for Change

Collaborative Solutions

Common Ground Health Clinic

Florida Legal Services, Inc.

Fresh Start of Baton Rouge

From the Lake to the River:  The New Orleans Coalition for Legal Aid and Disaster Relief

Georgia Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, Inc.

Grace Harbour Christian Ministries

Greater Houston Fair Housing Center

Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center

Greater New Orleans, Inc.

Gulf Coast Fair Housing Center (Biloxi, MS)

Home Builders Association of Greater New Orleans

Hope for the Homeless, Inc

Hope House

Houma-Terrebonne Housing Authority

Lake to the River: The New Orleans Coalition for Legal Aid and Disaster Assistance

Last Hope, Inc.

Lighthouse Community Development Corporation

Louisiana Advocacy Coalition for the Homeless

Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations

Louisiana Bayoukeeper, Inc.

Louisiana Developmental Disabilities Council

Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation

Louisiana Housing Alliance

Louisiana Supportive Housing Coalition

Mental Health America of Louisiana

Mississippi Center for Justice

Mississippi Interfaith Disaster Task Force

Mobile Fair Housing Center

Moving Forward Gulf Coast, Inc.

MQVN Community Development Corporation, Inc.

NAMI Louisiana

New Orleans Multicultural Tourism Network

New Orleans Neighborhood Development Collaborative

New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation

North Gulfport Community Land Trust

Northeast Louisiana Delta CDC

People Improving Communities Through Organizing - Louisiana Interfaith Together (PICO-LIFT)

National Organizations:

AARP

ACORN

Addicts Rehabilitation Center Foundation, Inc.

American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging

Amnesty International USA

Catholic Charities USA

Center for Responsible Lending

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Color of Change

Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force

Consumer Mortgage Coalition

Enterprise Community Partners

Institute of Real Estate Management

Jonathan Rose Companies

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc.

Michaels Development Company

Mortgage Bankers Association

National Affordable Housing Management Association

National Alliance to End Homelessness

National AIDS Housing Coalition

National Apartment Association

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders

National Association of Home Builders

National Association of Realtors

National Black Chamber of Commerce

National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD)

National Council on Independent Living

National Fair Housing Alliance

NCBA Housing Management Corporation

National Housing Conference

National Housing Law Project

National Housing Trust

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty

National Leased Housing Association

National Low Income Housing Coalition

National Multi Housing Council

National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness

NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby

Oxfam America

PolicyLink

Poverty & Race Research Action Council

Religious Action Center for Reformed Judaism

Technical Assistance Collaborative

Tramell Crow Company

Travelers Aid International

Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

United States Jesuit Conference

US Human Rights Network

Volunteers of America

Housing Images:


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