The mayor promised to remediate 10,000 blighted properties in New Orleans. In January, he announced he had met his goal. But that was based on a study of all properties that had been fixed up, regardless of whether the city got involved. The city is now cited as a model for blight reduction, but there’s no official count of properties that have been remediated.
The Lens' Charles Maldonado will talk with Lens readers at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Several milestones have been reached as NOMMA completes its build-out to a four-grade high school.
As recently as February, the school appeared to be heading for an annual deficit about as large as the surplus now projected.
Ongoing cost/benefit research weighs more than a diversion's land-building capacity, including impacts on fisheries and flood protection.
Family budgets have been nibbled from all sides by fees and walloped by higher rents or property taxes. Incomes haven’t kept pace.
But it faces strong opposition from law enforcement. A committee will hear the bill Tuesday.
