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Katrina Pain Index: New Orleans three years later
August 24, 2008
Zero apartments currently being built to replace the 963 public housing apartments formerly occupied and now demolished at the St. Bernard Housing Development. 2.6 billion FEMA dollars for Katrina damages that have not yet been delivered. Renowned people’s attorney Bill Quigley has compiled a shocking “pain index” caused by the continuing ethnic cleansing of New Orleans.
U.N. weighs in against demolishing public housing
July 27, 2008
The U.N. Human Rights Council concluded, “Thousands of Black families would continue to suffer displacement and homelessness if the demolition of 4,500 public housing units is not halted. … We therefore call on the Federal Government (U.S.) and state and local authorities to immediately halt the demolitions of public housing in New Orleans.”