Katrina + 10 months - truthout.org

Katrina + 10
From truthout.org - "Over 7,200 family dwellings sit empty throughout New Orleans. No, not FEMA trailers. These are solid brick public housing projects that survived Katrina. They only require interior repairs, and thousands of displaced low income families want to move back in. But instead, they are being fenced off and condemned. Why? Chris Hume and L. Wild Horse speak with Professor Bill Quigley and several former tenants."

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[ooooface]

Watch "NEW ORLEANS 3RD WARD MAGNOLIA PROJECTS" and then tell me that we should be letting people move back into the St. Bernard Projects.

[utubeteklore]

If people want to live there, and lived there before, by what right can government keep them out? Perhaps there are some rights the government has to do so... but it doesn't include gentrification.

[albertniquehoward]

BUSH DOES BLACK PEOPLE WRONG TO ALL MY NEW ORLEANS FLOK KEEP YOU HEAD UP AND STAY STRONG AND GOOD LORD WILL BLESS YOU ALL (BLACK POWER) LUV YALL!!!!!!

[mkin88]

thw white guy just admit that they are repelling people from there homes. was that levey brake planned

[4freespeech]

We walked through St. Bernard Project every day on our way to French Quarter in the years before Katrina.

There was NO DAMAGE & NO WATER up in those buildings. It is ONLY the fact

that WEALTHY ELITES want black people OUT OF THE CITY so they can TAKE

the land for CONDOS for rich whites. THAT is the TRUTH! New Orleans USED TO BE a great place to live and visit if you were a REGULAR WORKING PERSON because there was lots you could do with little money. The RICH want that ended.

[fudemm]

Vote Bobby and give louisiana hope.The demmocrap party has been in control of the state for over 25 years and we are at the bottom of the barrel.Vote Bobby Jindal for the future of louisiana.

[fudemm]

They know if they can move in they can sue the goverment for exposing them to mold,mildew and god knows what else is in the walls.Get a job and join the rest of the state.

[wlmg]

There's too many toxins present. The projects are too dangerous to be reinhabited.