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A week before hospital groundbreaking, Vitter amps up opposition in letter to HUD

by Ariella Cohen
U.S. Sen. David Vitter has long criticized the state’s shaky financing plans to replace Charity Hospital with a new $1.2 billion Louisiana State University-owned teaching hospital. Today the Louisiana Republican made that concern clear in a letter to  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan urging him not to put taxpayers on the hook for the project’s costs.

The letter comes a week before a planned April 18 groundbreaking on the hospital’s Mid-City site, and one day before the City Planning Commission is due to consider a revocation of all the streets within the hospital’s footprint.

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