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New Orleans public housing remade after Katrina. Is it working?

2019-10-03T14:32:07-05:00August 20th, 2015|Featured, Housing in New Orleans|

Eight years later, as the city approaches the 10th anniversary of the storm, the massive brick buildings that made up the old housing developments are all but gone, replaced with the multicolored pastel houses and fourplexes of Marrero Commons, Columbia Parc, Faubourg Lafitte and Harmony Oaks, among others.

Even as new Mid-City hospitals rise, Tulane Avenue’s past hinders its renaissance

2019-10-03T14:33:08-05:00August 10th, 2013|Featured, Uneasy Street|

The Pitards spent the mornings during their first year in business cleaning up syringes, used condoms and human feces left behind their restaurant, chased sex workers away throughout the day and worried every night that perhaps they made a terrible mistake.