Posted on 09/15/2006 11:29:54 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
BELLE CHASSE — A discussion about not duplicating pre-Katrina “concentrations of poverty” when New Orleans’ ravaged rental stock is rebuilt raised the temperature Thursday during a Louisiana Recovery Authority meeting.
While authority members and authority Executive Director Andy Kopplin were discussing two “Road Home” rental housing programs and an accompanying objective of not replicating what a Road Home handout called “pre-storm excessive concentrations of poverty,” New Orleanian Elizabeth Cook sprang to her feet and gave the board an earful.
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I see Louisiana remains Stuck on Stupid.
It's always those with the least to contibute who have the biggest mouths.
"The technically accurate term is: "Totally exploited and rendered enslaved, uneducated, crime victimized, empoverished by the democrat party""
Yes but that's too long, it wouldn't quite fit the soundbite newsworld we live in.
I like "democrat voters of color"......or maybe just plain old "po"
How about "freeloaders". There are really very few "poor" in the US. Poor people don't drive cars. Poor people are not obese. Poor people don't have television or live in a two bedroom apartment with something other than dirt floors.
Poor people don't have indoor plumbing.
I just read an article in World magazine talking about the very same thing and used the same term..."break up concentrations of poverty".
One woman's response was "We have a right to live in public housing".
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let me get out my copy of the constitution and bill of rights and see exactly where that's spelled out..do you mind waiting a couple dozen decades while I search?? :)
I dunno, I see more damned bling in the poor areas than I do in the affluent......
I don't know any billionaires with Gold Diamond embedded teeth.
Double-plus unwealthy.
Society's problem.
billionaires don't waste money on that stuff..it's part of the reason they're billionaires..the other part is, they work their a*ses off..
Welcome to SurvivorsVillage.com. Survivor's Village is a tent city erected on June 3, 2006 by the residents of New Orleans public housing. Joined by other public housing residents, the residents of St. Bernard Public Housing Development initiated the tent city as a response to the federal government's continued undermining of the residents' rights to return to their homes and resume their leases, which is guaranteed by the UN International Policy on Internally Displaced Persons.
As residents attempted to return to their homes, most of which sustained little storm damage, they were met with police harrassment, armed guards, and a newly erected barbed wire fence. Rather than release thousands of undamaged and minimally damaged housing units to displaced residents, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson had boarded up homes and purposefully failed to repair the units or take steps to mitigate further mold contamination. In June 2006, Jackson released plans to demolish 5,000 units of public housing, many of which were not damaged by storms.
Following four months of demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience in protest of the lockout, residents decided, with the support of local housing rights advocates, to set up a tent city along the road in front of the St. Bernard development, in full view of passing motorists.
The purpose of the Survivor's Village is twofold. First, it is to provide temporary housing, meeting space, and amenities for public housing residents who have been denied entry to their homes. Residents, supporters and volunteers have access to restroom, bathing, and cooking facilities, and participate in political protest and workshops examining issues of gender, race, poverty, and life in public housing. Second, the Survivor's Village will serve as a reminder to HANO and the City of New Orleans that public housing residents will contintue to fight for the right to return to their homes.
I think we all just need to pause and wait, and cease all discussion about these matters, until the PC Language Police have a chance to caucus and tell us what words would be most appropriate.
There is no disgrace in being poor.
I was poor. Many people I know were once poor.
None of us ever learned pitiful arrogance and demanded to be kept as cats and dogs in huge "free" kennels.
Poor and lazy and arrogant and stupid and becoming generations of society's pets --- that's another subject altogether. Yes, concentrating them creates "critical masses" that breed themselves into perpetual contempt, uselessness, abysmal ignorance, and ultimate early death.
Other than that...
Wealth-impaired?
Underincomed.
"As residents attempted to return to their homes,..."
How can these be theirs if they don't own them?
"Rather than release thousands of undamaged and minimally damaged housing units to displaced residents, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson had boarded up homes and purposefully failed to repair the units or take steps to mitigate further mold contamination."
You can do that when you own the property.
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