New Orleans in Crisis: We need Your Help
by scorpiorising
Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 10:01:55 AM PDT
17,000 plus homeless people in New Orleans right now, a rate that has tripled since Katrina, and HUD and Alphonso Jackson are determined to tear down 4500 units of public and affordable housing in New Orleans, demolition scheduled to begin next week.
20,000 people lived in public housing prior to Katrina. These are the people, the working poor, that city, state and federal leaders have turned their backs on.
My recent article on indy media, "New Orleans: The Perfect Storm", describes some of the forces leading to this crisis in New Orleans. Today, I'm going to let this short video tell the story:
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