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Posted at 1:13pm on Dec. 22, 2007 N.O. Public Housing: It's Both a Floor Wax and a Dessert Topping

By Vladimir

Times-Picayune columnist Jarvis DeBerry cogently points out that the protesters in New Orleans seem to want to have it both ways: the Projects represent both Degrading Human Warehouses Built by The Man to Keep Black People in Shackles and Idyllic Affordable Housing for the People.

Public Housing: Plot or Paradise?

Do you believe that the American government was engaged in a conspiracy against black people when it began building huge apartment complexes that served to concentrate poverty?

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Posted at 9:57am on Dec. 21, 2007 "Don't taze me, Breaux!"

By Vladimir

The New Orleans City Council, by a 7-0 vote, approved plans to raze four of the city's squalid, decrepit and historically crime infested public housing projects. Mayor Nagin has applauded the vote. Even the Washington Post approves:

Corruption and mismanagement led to a federal takeover of the city's housing authority in 2002. The Department of Housing and Urban Development moved quickly to break up these concentrations of poverty and dysfunction. Redevelopment of five of nine complexes into mixed-income communities is well underway. The remaining four complexes -- B.W. Cooper, St. Bernard, C.J. Peete and Lafitte -- hang in the balance. The City Council must vote for demolition.

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