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Thursday, June 15, 2006

NOLA: Wasn't it the plan from the beginning to get rid of the poor?

i've posted on this before...
Federal housing officials announced on Wednesday that more than 5,000 public housing apartments for the poor were to be demolished here and replaced by developments for residents with a wider range of incomes.

The announcement, made by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso R. Jackson, provoked strong criticism from low-income tenants and their advocates, several of whom noted that thousands of public housing apartments had been closed since Hurricane Katrina. But local officials have for months said they do not want a return to the intense concentrations of poverty in the old projects, where crime and squalor were pervasive.

astonishingly, going on a year later, the most shameful chapter of disaster response in u.s. history gets no better...

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