This is a local issue and up to the Mayor and city council to determine. 

The mayors’ constituants in public housing, have made a good arguement that if they can reburbish the apartments up to code, they be given a vote by the council to remain.

Dependent upon who has the deed to any of that property, they may have to move, like it or not.

In the 60’s it was “negro removal”.  Just another example of the racism and classism of the repugs and the MSM doesn’t give a damn.

It wasn’t Katrina it was the levee system: badly designed and poorly constructed.  FEMA couldn’t get there, but news and church volunteers could.  Go figure . . ..

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reply to #120699 by cyrena on 12/17 at 3:56 am

First off the last time I was in the big easy was late 93. however if I remember correctly the French quarter is bordered on the west side by the river and to the North you have the river walk shopping center and the convention center. Also in this area just a few blocks from the river you have the super dome. So If this housing project is where I think it is it would be in almost walking distance of the the french quarter , the convention center and the super dome. Therefore it would be the perfect spot for a hotel. Also I heard rumors that La and the city of NO are thinking of making gambling legal. So a hotel/casino is also possible.

#119952 by sad old german

I agree sad old german. We should have been out in force, and everywhere. We went down several times to try to help, but it was a needle in a haystack type effort. We should have just rioted – EVERYWHERE!! (that blackwater wasn’t).

And yes, before long…they’ll be here for the rest of us…only a matter of time.

#120503 by driving bear

Driving bear, good points, and I don’t know who the real estate belongs to, other than that it wouldn’t be the feds. (or it shouldn’t be) Not likely the state either. It should be the property of the city, or New Orleans Parish, which is like the county. It just depends on how it’s zoned.

However, even though it would seem like expensive real estate because of it’s proximity to the French Quarter, it’s not. Not in the sense that you’re suggesting here, because the French Quarter is valuable as a tourist site only, and there’s nothing that the addition of this property would do for it. That area of the city has always been subjected to very strict construction and renovation coding, (the area around the French Quarter) in order to maintain it’s authenticity. It would lose all value, (even as a tourist spot) if they tried to incorporate this area of the 9th ward into it. Now, that doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t TRY (the culture be damned) but it wouldn’t work.

I mean, it’s not like some areas say around the Memphis area, where they might be able to incorporate into the Beale Street and other tourist areas. That would have needed to have been considered long ago, and nobody wanted to do that. Actually, the US Army Corps of Engineers had done an evaluation and analysis long ago, long before Katrina, that called for a whole new levee system, and nobody would come up with the money. So, nobody much cared about saving NO. And, in all fairness, it has been a city largely controlled by the behavior of the river, (and all of it’s commerce) since the beginning. There was never really an ‘ideal’ spot to make it the ‘ideal’ city that it was intended to be, because of it’s strategic location.

So, it’s been few century battle with nature, since the city is as much a part of the River as well, the sidewalks and the bayous. and as long as they can still use if for commerce, and drilling, and all the rest, it’s unlikely to be considered valuable real estate just because of it’s proximity to the French Quarter. So, I don’t see that as the reason, (the money) at least not in this case.

Nope, in this case, it became pretty clear from the moment Katrina had ripped through. Actually, within a week, the weekly on-line publication, “The Black Commentator”, had a very insightful article, that I’d not even considered myself. It was entitled, “Will the ‘New’ New Orleans be Black?”

Turns out that what has happened there, is pretty much what that article predicted. A very scary, scary, thing. Sort of an ethnic cleansing assisted by nature, not to mention some human manipulation as well. Another one of those “Let it Happen” things.

So sad, it breaks my heart. So much history there.

Anyway, you should check out the film. It’s an excellent work.

I think this housing project is very close to the French quarter therefore it is very expensive real estate. Dumb question is the hosing project the property of the city of NO, the state of La or the federal government. So who ever owns it will make a nice chunk of change when its sold and the city will collect big in Property taxes. So kiss this project good bye.

This is “the shock doctrine” at work, otherwise known as “disaster capitalism.” Go to http://www.naomiklein.org for details.  Also at democracynow.org.

I was in New Orleans in January and again in April of this year.  My son, who lives there, and I took a ride out to Chalmette, the area that may have been hit the hardest.  There is a large hand painted bill board stating FEMA DIDN’T EVEN COME HERE.  NO police won’t go in there, and the national guard still patrols....the edges.  I kept my pistol in my lap the entire time.  It is a ghost town stretching just about as far as you can see.

This area, and other areas like the ninth ward, did have large populations of public housing folk, but to me, the real tragedy is the large number of poor working folk THAT OWNED THEIR HOME AND HAD FLOOD INSURANCE, AND THE INSURANCE COMPANIES STILL HAVE NOT PAID ONE DIME, BLAMING THE FLOOD NOT ON KATRINA, BUT ON THE FAILURE OF THE GOV’T TO MAINTAIN THE DIKES.

Many of these areas of New Orleans should not be rebuilt, and should be allowed to return to the Mississippi River Delta they were raised out from.

Still, those that had insurance should be paid by the insurers, with the gov’t assistance in making that happen.  It’s on thing to rebuild a ghetto but entirely another to rob the working poor with the help of our gov’t, which has been the norm in NO.

What a bunch of wacko liberal crybabies. Why don’t you blame God for making New Orleans sink below sealevel. The fact that blacks along with other racial groups and anyone else financially challenged are ignored and exploited should be fairly obvious but has nothing unique to do with this situation.

New Orleans is simply not worth saving. It may not even be savable no matter how many tax dollars are poured into it. Attempting to fix up New Orleans and returning its inhabitants is not the responsibility of the rest of the nation. New Orleans holds no vital strategic value to the nation’s interest.

This kind of liberal pantywaist insanity is what makes “conservatives” so successful at deriding “liberals”. The supposed liberals may be stupid enough to think they’re helping poor blacks but what they’re really doing is setting up those poor inhabitants of New Orleans for another disaster. A disaster in which the poorest will suffer the most.

Thank God for bloodthirsty, racist, war mongering, close minded, fiscally lunatic “conservatives”. They counter the “liberal” element which simply can’t decide whether to shoot themselves in the foot or in the head or if both, which one first.

Fast-forward: we liberals are so pleased to have spent the hundreds of billions of tax dollars necessary to move the poor blacks back into New Orleans. Naturally we are saddened by the fact that they were all wiped out by the latest hurricane.

Me too GrammaConcept, but I’m also screaming mad!!

And, that’s because I agree with the sad old german that it was never about incompentence at all. Oh no. It was all very deliberate, and that has been well documented by now. Spike Lee’s movie does a superb job at exposing it all. It’s titled “When the Levees Broke”. If you haven’t seen it, you should. Though, it will make you cry as well.

Also, the gentleman in the video, Bill Quigley, (he’s the white guy) has been on this from the beginning. He’s an attorney at Xavier U, (human rights, civil rights) and he’s written so much, that it could take you a while to get through it. But, if you go to the truthout.org website, and just put his name in the search engine, you should be able to quickly access his many pieces on this tragedy over the past 18 or so months. Heartbreaking as it is, there is so much to be learned from this, because it’s only a matter of time and convenient circumstance, (natural or created) before it hits more of us, and keeps on happening.

Sad old german, I can tell you why there wasn’t rioting in the streets. BLACKWATER!!! They descended upon NO like the private Nazi army that they are.

#119828 by sad old german: “...what we were watching was perhaps not incompetence, but our “government” seizing the opportunity to begin to turn New Orleans into a “Schwarzerein” city...”

Well, it was a mini-9/11 to the opportunists in power, ‘sad old german’ - sadly, they proved that the same recipe for “management” was also to be a disaster - still, they must have their own way, uhh.

A blitzkrieged city is one thing (the USA is good at that) but this was more like Pompeii unsunken. There was no “enemy” so they couldn’t find a way to either motivate themselves or their forces......

As it is, New Orleans is a city “beneath the waves” - and that is where it should go - to feed the bull-sharks of the Carribbean. That would be a fitting end for corporate exploitation and those who deny others a home.

There is no doubt that Katrina is STILL impacting the USA. This is just another part of what it has exposed. If these problems aren’t successfully addressed, America will become unliveable for free people before much longer........

I’m in tears.