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  • N.O. woman blasts 'code word' for poor - (So what are we supposed to call "poor people"..???

    09/15/2006 11:29:54 AM PDT · by GeorgiaDawg32 · 74 replies · 2,283+ views
    Baton Rouge Advocate ^ | 9/15/06 | JOE GYAN JR.
    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.