We should have never rebuilt the City of New Orleans. The Port of New Orleans is an absolute necessity. The City of New Orleans is an absurdity and needs to go.
Lived there for a year in the Audobon Park area, that was ok, but the rest is third world.
Agreed. And what does he expect? If you build new housing, the price will be higher then the old housing. If they want cheap housing they can move to other areas of the country where there is cheap housing. Why should we subsidize housing for people because they can’t live in the neighborhood they grew up in? That is not a rational argument.
If these people have no jobs it is even easier for them to pick up and find cheaper housing with jobs.
Let the housing market play out in New Orleans. Developers will build there as long as the price is reasonable for them to do so. And the price will be reasonable when demand to live there goes up. If that doesn’t happen then so be it.