"Four public housing developments will be torn down and four others will be retained, repaired and repopulated it was announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Wednesday.
The St. Bernard Housing Development is fenced off in New Orleans. HUD announced Wednesday that it will reopen 1,000 additional New Orleans public housing units this summer and increase the amount it pays for rental assistance to help bring the city's poor people back.
The four slated for demolition will not be reopened prior to the work being done. They include: St. Bernard, C.J. Peete, B.W. Cooper and Lafitte.
HUD Director Alphonso Jackson said the remaining developments, Fisher, Hendee, Guste and Iberville will be cleaned up and repaired by August to accommodate another 1,000 families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Close to 1,000 units have already been repopulated."
Maybe this is a good thing, I know the projects have been a mess for years. Still . . . I'd like to see the fine print.
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Sounds like a great idea. Ownership is the solution. I don't think it would fail; Habitat for Humanity makes it work for its clients.
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