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The Politics of Demolition in New Orleans
The National Trust New Orleans field office director, Walter Gallas, blogged last week that, indeed, public housing demolitions have begun in three of the four public housing developments slated to be razed. At current, HUD is spending $762 million to tear down over 4,600 public housing subsidized apartments. All at a time when the Gulf Coast, and the nation, is facing one of the worst affordable housing crisis in American history. Read more
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HGTV Changing the World One Renovation at a Time
HGTV recently announced the winners of the Change the World, Start at Home campaign aimed at revitalizing communities across the country. Several projects within five cities are going to get a helping hand from HGTV, Natural Resources Defense Council, Rebuilding Together and the National Trust for Historic Preservation on energy upgrades, open space improvements, home repairs and more.
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Focus on New Orleans, with help from This Old House
New Orleans owns a pretty big piece of my heart and, post-Katrina, my thoughts often turn to the city and the area. I first fell in love with the region on a 2004 trip to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Then again on a two week field study trip up and down the Mississippi River where I learned about Environmental Justice, met community activists fighting for their communities and reaffirmed my love affair with the sights, sounds and smells of the Big Easy.
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