New Orleans Residents Vow to Fight Federal Bulldozers
Bill Quigley, writing for Truthout, reports, "On the 12th day before Christmas, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is planning to unleash teams of bulldozers to demolish thousands of low-income apartments in New Orleans."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120307A.shtml
High Noon in New Orleans: The Bulldozers Are Ready
Nicolai Ouroussoff reports for The New York Times: "Ever since it took over the public housing projects of New Orleans more than a decade ago, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been itching to tear them down....But such thinking reflects a ruthless indifference to local realities. The projects in New Orleans have little to do with the sterile brick towers and alienating plazas that usually come to mind when we think of inner-city housing. Some rank among the best early examples of public housing built in the United States, both in design and in quality of construction. On the contrary, it is the government's tabula rasa approach that evokes the most brutal postwar urban-renewal strategies. Neighborhood history is deemed irrelevant; the vague notion of a 'fresh start'.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121907M.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=New+Orleans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Quigley
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120307A.shtml
High Noon in New Orleans: The Bulldozers Are Ready
Nicolai Ouroussoff reports for The New York Times: "Ever since it took over the public housing projects of New Orleans more than a decade ago, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been itching to tear them down....But such thinking reflects a ruthless indifference to local realities. The projects in New Orleans have little to do with the sterile brick towers and alienating plazas that usually come to mind when we think of inner-city housing. Some rank among the best early examples of public housing built in the United States, both in design and in quality of construction. On the contrary, it is the government's tabula rasa approach that evokes the most brutal postwar urban-renewal strategies. Neighborhood history is deemed irrelevant; the vague notion of a 'fresh start'.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121907M.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=New+Orleans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Quigley
rudkla - 3. Dez, 22:08
