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The New DU. Reply #35: Before Katrina, New Orleans didn't have an acute housing shortage.
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KamaAina
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Fri Dec-14-07 06:51 PM
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| 35. Before Katrina, New Orleans didn't have an acute housing shortage. |
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Housing was almost the lone bright spot among the litany of social ills that has shadowed the city for decades. Then came the Federal Flood. Rents in the city have nearly doubled. And if you're one of "those people", good luck finding a place to rent in most of the surrounding area.
HANO said a poll found that 70 percent of former residents at one development liked the agency's plans.
Deconstructing this:
* HANO is now basically an arm of HUD, whose leader said in public that "New Orleans will never again be as poor or as black as it was". (He himself is black.) Do you trust them?
* 70 percent of former residents at one development. Which development? It doesn't say.
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