Archive for September, 2010
Barefoot and Shipwrecked
I’m jogging Max, now 16 months old and 90 pounds of K-9 energy. It is Monday morning, around 9:20am. I’ve recently switched from traditional running shoes to some sort of 5-toed soft shoes that are intended to mimic the effects of barefoot running. I like them, but Max is clearly impatient about the fact that [...]
The Times-Picayune: Slamming the Door Against the Homeless: Jarvis DeBerry
Keeping a roof over one’s head has become measurably more difficult since Katrina. The proof is in the statistics from the year 2008 that local demographer Allison Plyer presented at Loyola University Saturday morning at a symposium convened by the Jesuit Social Research Institute. A family is in trouble when it’s paying more than 30 [...]
Esplanade Avenue Apartment Proposal OK’d by City Council
Published: Friday, September 17, 2010, 7:00 AM Bruce Eggler, The Times-Picayune A plan to convert an abandoned Esplanade Avenue nursing home into a 40-unit apartment complex for low-income and disabled homeless tenants got a green light Thursday from the New Orleans City Council, but the developers still could face major hurdles in making the plan [...]
The Times-Picayune: Esplanade Avenue Apartment Proposal Draws Resistance from Neighbors
Published: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 9:45 PM Updated: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 12:06 AM Times-Picayune Staff A proposal to transform an abandoned Esplanade Avenue nursing home into a 40-unit apartment complex for some of the city’s most vulnerable homeless people has stirred up virulent opposition from some neighbors, who fear the tenants would increase crime [...]
WDSU: Council Approves Controversial Homeless Center
Esplanade Ridge Residents Worry About Odyssey House POSTED: 4:34 pm CDT September 16, 2010 Click here to view video NEW ORLEANS — The City Council approved a plan Thursday for an apartment complex for the homeless to move forward, but neighbors in the Esplanade Ridge community said the fight is far from over. The split [...]
WWLTV: Homeless Program Leaves Landlords in Cold
by Katie Moore / Eyewitness News wwltv.com Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:13 PM NEW ORLEANS — A program in New Orleans funded by a federal stimulus grant that’s supposed to get the homeless off the streets has left at least 65 landlords without rent payments for several months. The bureaucratic backlog to blame [...]
The Times-Picayune: Post-Hurricane Katrina Housing Costs Put Many on the Edge
Published: Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 9:00 AM Gwen Filosa, The Times-Picayune The typical resident of the New Orleans metropolitan area pays 33 percent more in housing costs than before Hurricane Katrina struck,according to a survey by the U.S. Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment released Monday. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said there is more federally assisted [...]
The New York Times: Katrina, 5 Years Later
September 1, 2010 New Orleans is rebounding well from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and could conceivably end up on a stronger economic footing than before the storm — if the city redevelops in the right way. For that to happen, federal, state and local authorities must step up the effort to [...]
The Times-Picayune: Bigger Jails Don’t Mean Safer Cities: A Guest Column by Byron Harrell
Published: Wednesday, September 01, 2010, 6:03 PM Contributing Op-Ed columnist In the very near future, the New Orleans City Council will be asked to consider the construction of a very large parish prison. I believe that everyone involved in this discussion is acting in good faith and truly seeks a safer New Orleans for all [...]
