[freekitty]

Is anyone listening to this woman; since NO's corruption was so nakedly laid open to the public after Katrina?

[BenLurkin]

"People are clamoring to get home,"

To the projects?

What kind of "home" is that???

[RightOnline]

Why...oh why.....does anyone pay attention to this corrupt twit? Yes, I'm serious.

[TexasCajun]

Blanco, "New Orleans' murder rate isn't what it used to be!"

[rogue yam]

Meemaw just wants to get some more 'Rat voters back from Texas, etc., before she stands for re-election in November.

[alarm rider]

Pave NO, get it over with.

[untrained skeptic]

She needs to get more poor, government dependent voters back into NO to maintain the Democrat's power there.

[trumandogz]

Blanco is doing just the opposite of what needs to be done. She ought to demand that no projects be build or repaired hopefully the evacuees on the dole will have to stay where they are.

[appleharvey]

The fact that Blanco is still the sitting Governor tells me all that I want to know about LA. I don't give a rat's ass what happens to that state, and NOL can sink into the Big Muddy for all that I care. Ungrateful bastards!

[caisson71]

HUD is a disaster. HUD cannot manage anything, is in total confusion and a waste - huge waste - of taxpayers money. HUD has too many bosses, is full of conflicting regulations subject to their own interpretations and lacks leadership. Nearly everyone is looking out for their own carrott and nobody takes responsibility. But, than again, that's true about most government agencies.

[sgtbono2002]

Slums just aint slums without people.

They need to reopen these slums in order to keep up the murder rate.

[sarasmom]

If Governor Blanco vacates the mansion, and moves her family into one of the damaged "other government housing buildings" for the rest of the duration of her term,and allows a few of the former "government housing" residents to move into the mansion, perhaps she would garner more support for her "let them eat cake" style of slumlord supporters.

The article wasn't very specific about who is actually going to pay for renovated city of New Orleans "government housing".
Is it merely the taxpayers of the State of Louisiana? I would think they are a bit tapped out at present...but if they are willing to pay for it, well, that's an internal State matter, and easily handled without outside interference.
Or is Blanco demanding Federal funds?
In that case, the federal level congressional representatives of all fifty states have a vested interest in ensuring taxpayer funds are spent wisely.
I certainly hope Florida State tax funds, not to mention Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas tax funds, are not being sent to Louisiana to be used for Louisiana's indigent housing needs, as we seem not to have enough to spare for our own citizens.

[OBXWanderer]

plans to tear them down and replace them with "mixed income" housing developments.

That's a new one on me. Mixed income? Wonder if Looter guy is in that bracket?

[PAR35]

They could probably get the folks in Houston and Dallas to pay some of the costs of reopening the projects

[Don Corleone]

Chocolate...chocolate...anyone want some sweet chocolate???

[A Strict Constructionist]

Pure political desperation. She and Mary need the projects or they can never win another election. Roll Jindal Roll.

[meyer]

Here's an idea, Blank-oh - Why not reopen the housing with STATE or LOCAL funds and quit trying to live off the taxpayers in the other 49 states. Daggone welfare queen.

[meyer]

But the U.S. Housing and Urban Development agency, which controls the projects, plans to tear them down and replace them with "mixed income" housing developments.

That is also a stupid idea.

[BnBlFlag]

Boy, I bet the remaining New Orleanians can't wait for that to happen!

[goldstategop]

Kathleen Blanco wants to get rid of an eyesore - visual and political. Why not built low-cost private housing in N.O? Of course no one dares to raise such a solution in polite company.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus