Within our city, we have brains on board to make the demolition process more user friendly and culturally sensitive. It falls upon the Nagin administration and our City Council to make this happen. Why we can’t arrive at that destination is indicative of the laissez faire mindset that created the problem in the first place.

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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...