Slog - Comments on When Tearing Down Public Housing Might Be a Bad Idea http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b When you haven't exactly nailed down how you're going to replace it. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) successfully (and controversially) pushed last year to tear down several thousand units of public housing in New Orleans after Katrina--even though much of the housing had not been damaged in the post-hurricane floods. The units, which housed more than 5,000 people, were supposed to be replaced with "mixed-income" housing by a private developer. In the meantime, tenants would have to make do with (toxic) FEMA trailers. Except, whoops, the national housing credit crunch is making HUD's plan, which relies... Copyright 2008 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:26:04 -0800 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:30:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Liston Sounds...like...The...

]]> Liston http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994336 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994336 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:33:26 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways the lives and fates of poor, black people in New Orleans has never been high on the list of Bush Mis-administration priorities.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994337 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994337 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:33:34 -0800 Comment by Westside forever Are those people every going to stop being fucked over?

]]> Westside forever http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994351 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994351 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:36:39 -0800 Comment by Colton Considering that the Housing Project in question is RIGHT ACROSS the street from the French Quarter... one could hardly blame the location, location, location, real estate factor.

Condos anyone?

"House Republican campaign chief Reynolds touts chance to market conservative social-policy solutions; Rep. Baker of Baton Rouge is overheard telling lobbyists: "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."

www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/12/nola_housing/

]]> Colton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994385 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994385 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:54:13 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay Anyone who thinks that they ever had any intention of rebuilding ANY public housing on that site is naive in the extreme.

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994431 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:21:51 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle 385 days and a wakeup.

George Bush and his comrades hate Black People.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994543 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994543 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:08:12 -0800 Comment by Cow Isn't this exactly what Naomi Klein wrote about years ago? Why, *still*, does nobody care?

]]> Cow http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994552 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994552 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:10:44 -0800 Comment by Jeff Maybe they can just relocate them to those empty condos towers in Miami (or really most other American cities) that were created by the loose lending and bubble mania that brought us this credit crisis in the first place.

]]> Jeff http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994621 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994621 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:39:35 -0800 Comment by chris in new orleans @#4 - the projects in question are not on the edge of the French Quarter, they are spread through neighborhoods relatively far from the tourist district. They are planning improvements to the project (Iberville) near the quarter AFTER the other projects are underway/finished. They will eliminate some units, but high density poverty is not a good thing, at least here in New Orleans it isn't. But hey, what do I know, I live here and have a Master of Urban and Regional Planning.

]]> chris in new orleans http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994685 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994685 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:59:58 -0800 Comment by gnossos @9: did you ever work at Cafe Pontalba?

]]> gnossos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994794 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994794 News Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:32:10 -0800 Comment by chris in new orleans @10: No I have never worked at Cafe Pontalba. Sorry.

]]> chris in new orleans http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994888 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/when_tearing_down_public_housing_might_b#c994888 News Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:30:55 -0800