[GeorgiaDawg32]

I suppose we now need a PC term for poor, since poor people don't want to be called poor??

[PRND21]

Bling Challenged?

[oh8eleven]

New Orleanian Elizabeth Cook sprang to her feet and gave the board an earful.
The proper response - "sit down and STFU!"

[theDentist]

New Orleanian Elizabeth Cook sprang to her feet and gave the board an earful.

Announcing her candidacy...?

[Maceman]

So now we have to call them "Indigent Americans?"

[Niteranger68]

Well, if you can't (or most likely won't) take care of yourself, we'll put your a$$ on Gilligan's Island if we want. Don't like it? Support yourself.

[FormerACLUmember]

The New Orleans term "utter trash" seems more appropiate.

[Maceman]

“We’re trying to get everybody home under quality conditions and under conditions that everyone can afford,”

Lemme know how that works out for ya.

[Mikey_1962]

I thought we won the War on Poverty in the Johnson years.

[Always Right]

I suppose we now need a PC term for poor, since poor people don't want to be called poor??

Fiscally challenged.

[FormerACLUmember]

"I suppose we now need a PC term for poor, since poor people don't want to be called poor??"

The technically accurate term is: "Totally exploited and rendered enslaved, uneducated, crime victimized, empoverished by the democrat party"

[psychoknk]

Way to not read the article. The poor don't care about being called poor. The "code word" or rather, "code sentence" in this case is summed up in the following line:

She said not repeating concentrations of poverty is a “code word” for keeping New Orleans’ displaced poor from returning to the city.

Elizabeth Cook goes on to say:

“What you’re saying is certain people can’t come home. Let’s be honest here. It’s shameful,” she said. “What you’re saying is concentration of poverty is a crime. It’s OK for the rich to live in concentrations. The working poor need somewhere to live, too. People need somewhere to come home. You’re not fighting for the people.”

[pbear8]

Financially challenged.

Penthouse aspirants

Monetary seekers

Not yet lottery winners

[4yearlurker]

Shopping in the baloney section.

[southlake_hoosier]

Looters!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Bizarre. A concentration of poor people is a ghetto. Self-labeled "progressives" have pushed for decades to integrate the poor ("slim-wallet set"?) into middle class neighbourhoods.

[Gordongekko909]

Oh, look. Elizabeth Cook is a nutty left-wing urbanist.

[JennysCool]

I see Louisiana remains Stuck on Stupid.

[freeangel]

It's always those with the least to contibute who have the biggest mouths.

[RobRoy]

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.

[happilymarriedmom]

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".