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Friday, December 21, 2007

Housing outrage in New Orleans

I wanted to give everyone who was not aware about the housing situation in New Orleans a chance to hear about what is really going on over there. It has come to my attention while watching the news today that the government passed a bill of some kind to demolish a huge housing unit that houses hundreds of the needy inner city. They claim that they want to demolish these units so that they can build some so called affordable income housing units in there place. Now in reality the public knows that affordable housing is really just another term for lofty condominiums.

The sad thing is all of this is going on when the people over there are still scrambling for places to live after the disastrous hurricane Katrina. They have been pretty much left hanging by the government and of course the treacherous Fe ma organization, who let the housing aid they promised to help citizens rot away on some lots in New Orleans. The people are fighting for a place just to be, and even that is getting taken away from them. Where are our great leaders out there?

The citizens were forced to storm city hall today to try to get in to fight for a right to be heard. Instead they were all pummelled and sprayed with pepper spray, trampled by police, and some were even arrested. Some politicians even had the nerve to say that the reason why this demolish was taking place was because the inner city was being riddled with crime. They believe that building new unit complexes will get rid of a lot of the crime wave. My question this evening is when will the people of New Orleans get a true chance to recover and have peace?

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