http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/08/katrina-update-a-billion-dollars-later-new-orleans-still-at-risk/ Where the world comes together Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:08:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/08/katrina-update-a-billion-dollars-later-new-orleans-still-at-risk/#comment-1001 Diana Thébaud Nicholson Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:30:17 +0000 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2007/08/katrina-update-a-billion-dollars-later-new-orleans-still-at-risk/#comment-1001 <strong>New Orleans to demolish thousands of 'poor' homes</strong> By Leonard Doyle in Washington 21 December 2007 In the face of violent protests, New Orleans City Council yesterday moved to demolish thousands of low-income houses as the city continues the agonisingly slow process or rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina. Demolition crews will now move in to dismantle the 4,500 brick buildings that generations of poor people lived in. The outburst of violence came amid concerns that the authorities intend to reduce the numbers of predominantly poor, black people living in New Orleans. ... The US Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to replace the units badly, which were old and in reed of demolition even before they were damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It intends to replace them with new mixed-income housing. <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3273227.ece" rel="nofollow">More</a> New Orleans to demolish thousands of ‘poor’ homes
By Leonard Doyle in Washington
21 December 2007
In the face of violent protests, New Orleans City Council yesterday moved to demolish thousands of low-income houses as the city continues the agonisingly slow process or rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina.
Demolition crews will now move in to dismantle the 4,500 brick buildings that generations of poor people lived in. The outburst of violence came amid concerns that the authorities intend to reduce the numbers of predominantly poor, black people living in New Orleans.
… The US Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to replace the units badly, which were old and in reed of demolition even before they were damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It intends to replace them with new mixed-income housing. More

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