“City Business”:http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=20253

“We hope to have everything handed off by the end of the month, Smith said.
“The city will manage the demolitions and control their own destiny so to speak “

When the deadline was announced and many people were caught unaware we saw a rapid pile up of debris from houses still being gutted. Veronica White from the City Sanitation Department assured us that the property owners would be fined, a few days later dumpsters began to appear on the work sites. So Veronica must have worked some magic to make that happen.

The entire demolition process seems to be placed on hold while the City “retools the process.”:http://www.knowledgeplex.org/news/845391.html

Karen Gadbois

Karen Gadbois co-founded The Lens. She now covers New Orleans government issues and writes about land use. With television reporter Lee Zurik she exposed widespread misuse of city recovery funds and led...