AltWeeklies Wire
New Orleans Gentrification: Progress?new
Robert Morris of Uptown Messenger on a Tulane University discussion about a changing New Orleans.
Gambit |
Robert Morris |
06-12-2013 |
Housing & Development
A Proposed Cold-Storage Facility Has French Quarter Folks Calling Fowlnew
The Port of New Orleans and a local neighborhood group are at odds over the port's efforts to renovate the Gov. Nicholls/Esplanade wharves into a cold storage facility that uses anhydrous ammonia to blast-freeze packages of chicken, which will then be shipped up the Mississippi River.
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
04-08-2009 |
Housing & Development
Why Aren't Alarms Preventing FEMA Trailers From Exploding and Burning?new
The trailers have alarms that warn of dangerous propane levels, but the alarms work only if they are properly installed and maintained.
Gambit |
Matt Robinson |
04-30-2008 |
Housing & Development
In Louisiana, Affordable Housing is Disconnectednew
A program to help restore low-income affordable rental units after the hurricanes has made some progress, but it comes slowly -- and sometimes not at all.
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
03-19-2008 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Eco-Construction Blooms in New Orleansnew
More and more contractors and do-it-yourselfers are learning the advantages of green building techniques in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
03-12-2008 |
Housing & Development
New Orleans Homeless Encampment Has a Survival Culture All Its Ownnew
The 200 or so homeless people who live in makeshift shelters under an overpass in the shadow of downtown have formed a community in which they look out for each other and work together to find homes for their members.
Gambit |
Greg Thomas |
02-13-2008 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
NORA's Long Road Aheadnew
The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority is finally getting enough money to do its job. Is the agency ready?
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
12-19-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Merry Christmas from HUDnew
Despite Katrina causing the worst affordable housing crisis since the Civil War, HUD is spending $762 million in taxpayer funds to tear down more than 4,600 publicly subsidized apartments and replace them with 744 similarly subsidized units -- an 82 percent reduction.
Gambit |
Bill Quigley |
12-12-2007 |
Housing & Development
The Check is Not In the Mailnew
A program designed to replace thousands of affordable rental units destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans has not rebuilt a single one.
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
11-13-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
