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Groups seeing rise in severe mental health cases among N.O. homeless
With New Orleans’ stock of blighted structures still among the nation’s largest nearly five years after Hurricane Katrina, residents on Monday implored advisers to Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu to take tough action against delinquent property owners. In offering suggestions to Landrieu’s task forces on housing and blight, participants also urged the new administration, which takes office [...]
Vigil focuses attention on deaths of 14 homeless people in the past year
Weathered hands, rough from icy temperatures and years of strife, gripped small candles Friday night in memory of 14 homeless people who died while living on the streets of New Orleans. The event, attended by dozens of homeless people, was planned by Healthcare for the Homeless, whose doctors have long documented how homeless people, many [...]
What New Orleans Needs
New York Times Editorial Published: December 11, 2009 The real estate industry and some Louisiana politicians have been promoting the fiction that New Orleans has all the housing it needs and should be allowed to divert hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid from desperately needed affordable housing to projects like building roads and [...]
Eking Out A Life In New Orleans’ Abandoned Homes
They are all but invisible: abandoned people eking out a meager existence on abandoned New Orleans property. No electricity. No running water. They are barely making it. In the darkened kitchen, the floor is littered with filthy clothing, rotting food, empty bottles and cans. Part of the roof is missing, so now it rains inside. [...]
On the Fourth Anniversary of Katrina, New Orleans is still far from recovery
By: Jordan Flaherty, Contributing Writer Posted: Monday, August 31, 2009 1:03 pm On the Fourth Anniversary of Katrina, New Orleans is still far from recovery Crawling through a hole in a fence and walking through an open doorway, Shamus Rohn and Mike Miller lead the way into an abandoned Mid-City hospital. They are outreach workers [...]
Derelict Buildings House Thousands In New Orleans
by Kathy Lohr – NPR Four years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has regained about 75 percent of its pre-storm population, and there are signs of economic progress. But although New Orleans is rebuilding its arts and tourism venues, including a $165 million theme park in New Orleans East, a shadowy second society exists. According [...]
