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Displaced Poor Still Arriving in New Orleans
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...As The Saints Go Marching In
Lakeside suggests a
little "retail therapy"
By Bill Quigley.
Tears dripped down her face as she searched for her missing suitcase in the busy New Orleans bus station. “It had my ID, my children’s birth certificates, my money and my credit cards,” she softly cried. It was Sunday morning, one week after she was bused out of New Orleans to a military base in Arkansas. She was supposed to be at work. Her three children needed her. But she needed that suitcase.
A single older woman, clinging to her heavy bag and a single crutch, sighed as she got off the bus from Kentucky. A little boy with a Lightning McQueen backpack, almost bigger than he was, gave a tiny fist bump to the first person he saw. A middle aged woman sat in a plastic chair, eyes closed, head in her hands, slowly rocking.
Outside, black and gold fans of the New Orleans Saints were drinking and barbecuing preparing for the noon game. Their smoke drifted over the bus station and mixed with the exhaust from dozens of big buses and the contents of dozens of port o lets.
Over a thousand people are expected to be bused home to New Orleans sometime Sunday. They are the last of around 30,000 people evacuated by the government to hundreds of shelters across the country.
Though 26% of Louisiana was reported Sunday to still be without power, people were more than ready to come home.
The bus station was full of dark blue uniformed police, camouflaged National Guard soldiers, Health Department workers in sky blue shirts, red shirted Catholic Charities and Red Cross personnel, lime green day glo jacketed volunteers from the local Medicaid office and many others.
One local judge observed after days at the bus station, “It is unbelievable just how many disabled and elderly people actually live in our community. They just keep getting off these buses with their wheelchairs, their canes and crutches. Dozens, then hundreds, then thousands. Many must usually be housebound, because we rarely see them.”
A disabled older woman trudges along with a cane and a garbage bag of belongings as a volunteer pushes the wheelchair of her full-grown absolutely silent son. “Next time,” she said, “we’re just going to have to ride it out at home. This was too much.”
An old man angrily spurned the offer of ready to eat meals from a volunteer. “I need money. Can you help me with that? No? I didn’t think so! I spent all my money on this and I’m about to get put out of my house!”
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Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced
Last updated by Editor on 03/06/2008 10:45 AM (Read: 6589 times)
The displacement of tens of thousands of people is now expected to be permanent because there is both a current shortage of affordable housing and no plan to create affordable rental housing for tens of thousands of the displaced
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U.N. weighs in against demolishing public housing
Last updated by Editor on 02/28/2008 07:13 PM (Read: 9494 times)
"The spiraling costs of private housing and rental units, and in particular the demolition of public housing, puts these communities in further distress, increasing poverty and homelessness,"
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Myths and Facts about Public Housing
Last updated by Editor on 12/17/2007 04:38 AM (Read: 12229 times)
Unfortunately, the Times-Picayune recently repeated uncritically many of the untruths propagated by HUD and HANO. Here is a list of Myths and Facts to help people understand the reality.
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HUD Sends Bulldozers for the Holidays
Last updated by Editor on 12/03/2007 12:57 PM (Read: 15463 times)
For the poor, the holidays are scheduled to bring bulldozers. The demolition is poised to start in New Orleans any day now. Attempts at demolition will be met with just resistance.
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Housing in New Orleans
Last updated by Editor on 11/13/2007 09:36 AM (Read: 14474 times)
Bill Quigley's presentation about the housing situation is New Orleans. Quigley shows who wins and who loses. Guess who?
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Latest Filings in HANO Suit
Last updated by Editor on 11/02/2007 11:20 AM (Read: 13304 times)
Filed November 1st in Anderson v. Alphonso Jackson, et al.
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