The government is scheduled to demolish thousands of units of public housing in New Orleans. The city is in the middle of an affordable housing crisis. Rents have skyrocketed and thousands are homeless.
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October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I know new orleans …
I know new orleans people is having it hard right now..but there was so much crime out there..god hates crime but the flood zone is real and everybody need to watch out..i have never beento no..but what they went threw is hurting me…
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I cant believe the …
I cant believe the Government is not doing anything about this still??! WTF? They want everyone to have socialized medicine and cant get any government program from the past to work out of debt. American people come first before Obamas plan that he cant pass due to it sounds Socialist..not good.. Health care the government cant fix or will make worse.
I thought Obama cared I guess not.. YES WE CANT! All of the stimulus money going where? in to politicians pockets?
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Yup, the projects …
Yup, the projects are for criminals, and people abusing the system.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I can’t stand it …
I can’t stand it when they do things like this. They tear down the projects to put up million-dollar condos. That is so wrong.
I think they should re-construct and remodel the public housing complexes, and make them safer and more inhabitable living environments.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
white people …
white people created public housing back in the day. Its a mess.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Iberville was built …
Iberville was built in the early 1940s as part of the Wagner Bill. In 1940, the city declared 95% of the structures substandard, clearing the way for construction of the project. There are
858 units in Iberville project.
During segregation, the Iberville was occupied by whites, while the nearby Lafitte Project served the black tenants.
So, this wasn’t set uo originally for Reagan’s fictitious ‘Welfare Queens’. The
projects in New Orleans were split between the poor Whites and Blacks!
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Fuck public housing …
public housing. Public housing is just a big pile of shit, anyone who would defend it is either a dumb white from the suburbs or a scumbag drug dealer.
If anything public housing should ONLY be for handicapped people, people who are blind, deaf, have aids and diseases like that, or are old and dying. Instead, it’s become some black welfare community bullshit. It’s so obvious only a dumbass white from the suburbs would endorse this idiotic bullshit.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
when they tore down …
when they tore down the public housing they tore down my childhood because i lived there my whole entire life
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
No they weren’t. …
No they weren’t. When Techwood homes in Atlanta, the nation’s first housing development, was erected in the 1930s, It was actually segregated. Blacks were not allowed to reside with white people. The same thing happened to in New Orleans. The Iberville housing project was originally for whites only. Blacks had to live in other developments. Those who first stayed in many projects when they were built were those less fortunate, but also mixed income residents. The same cycle is happening today.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Then a lot of black …
Then a lot of black people became complacent and didn’t want to move into the white communities. Especially our parents and their parents. As a result a lot of people just stayed and continued to live poor because they were happy with their own kind. As for the crime, there are countless single parent families living in public housing, which caused lack of guidance and respect for one another, especially authority. With lack of available employment you have increased drug use &sellers & no hope
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Actually they were. …
Actually they were.. They were built to discourage and hinder the impoverished black communities. I was fortunate to live in the suburbs in NY but I’ve visited public housing before in several communities there and in Atlanta and I was petrified. But this goes back to the 1930’s and up where blacks were put in poor communities on purpose because whites were too stubborn and hateful to have them in their communities and play with their kids.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
You have no right …
You have no right to call these “tax payers” monkeys. You have no right to judge these people. They are just a product of a bad situation with no guidance (spiritual guidance). If you were in their shoes, you would be fighting for your home as well so do not judge them for that. Only GOD can judge and please believe you will be judged for making that hideous comment…
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I don’t know what …
I don’t know what the monkeys are so mad about. Their boy Osambo will make sure they get moved into one of the few white neighborhoods left in New Orleans and ruin them too.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
This is just …
This is just another one of the goverments way to break up black communities. Its resembles the race riot in tulsa oklahoma when the original black wallstreet was and the black community was burned down and our people killed. There was an article in the newspaper that read “Little town will be no more” and it never was again. Ever since that incident the black community here hasnt been the same.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
People have to …
People have to understand, Housing projects weren’t developed for criminals or felons or repeat offenders. One thing i will say is that people in the hood do need to do more to keep the criminals and drug dealers from taking over. Don’t depend on the police or city officials. they don’t care. Malcolm X stressed this to black communities before he was murdered.
Been in New Orleans for several years
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I can understand …
I can understand why some people would want to keep the projects from being torn down (i grew up in one in Atlanta) but at the same time, think of all the young black men, women, and even children that have been slain in some of these places. its not a good place to raise your kids. living in the projects is supposed to be a temporary thing. NO ONE should want to live in the projects all their life.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Wow. Who said …
Wow. Who said anything about free? I didn’t hear anyone say they wanted a free place to live. They wanted a place they could afford. If you worked every day but suddenly didn’t earn enough to live in the city where you had lived all your life because they demolished your home, are you suddenly lazy? Since when does affordable = free and lazy? Is that why most of us don’t live in million dolllar homes – because we’re lazy? Or is it merely because its out of our price range? Amazing.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
You mean most of …
You mean most of New Orleans black public housing residents won’t be able to return to that city due to the hurricane? Gee. When can MY town have a hurricance like that???
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
F – MSG me on MSN. …
F – MSG me on MSN. ID is in my profile. Z
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Greed kills. This …
Greed kills. This makes me so sad for New Orleans.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
did they ever do it …
did they ever do it make ah video
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
reality of this is …
reality of this is its wrong to tear down those ”livable” buildings but real talk most of the people in the projects have 2 good arms and 2 good legs and they intelligent so they could be workin somewhere maybe have a house of their own ! but they preffer wellfare i aint dissin if yall black , white , latino etc. cuz i live in puerto rico and its the same only here its worst cuz here welfare is like better cuz it pays all your bills but the P.R. goverment be raising lazy people !!!
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
God helps those who …
God helps those who help themselves. Not waiting for the government to give them 40 acres and a mule.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
if they allow …
if they allow people to move back in and another hurricane hits new Orleans and destroys this part of town, there just going to blame government for not doing something about it, when in fact they are trying to get rid of the concentrated poverty and move affordable housing to a safer location protected from future levee breaches, it seems like the right thing to do.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
fuck yall yall dont …
yall yall dont know nothing about new orleans man yall just going by the media they trying 2 tear down the LAFITTE PROJECTS thats up i remember those days on orleans street