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The response of some to these statistics is to call for still more demolition, abandonment and neglect of older and historic neighborhoods. In the last three decades we lost from our national inventory of older and historic homes 6.3 million year-round housing units. Over 80 percent of those units were single-family residences. The vast majority […]

“why I changed my mind”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/why-i-changed-my-mind/

One of the best live performances I ever saw back in the “dark”:http://www.answers.com/topic/richard-nixon “ages”:http://www.learningcalendar.com/this_day_in_history/days_template.cfm?history_id=60498 of the early 70’s

Even the most humble house can hold more history than it’s gutted and hollowed out walls would have you believe. The fist time I saw this house I was wondering why someone had spray painted DO NOT DEMOLISH on it. The house had floated off it’s piers and was resting against the house next door. […]

My Neighborhood Organization has been reporting this house to Code Enforcement for a long time. We reported it before it burned. But nothing happened. We reported it after it burnt, and nothing happened. The owner went before the City for an Administrative Ajudication hearing, and I guess nothing happened. Cause now he has taken a […]

This house is on Orleans Avenue in an area which received much less water than most. So why has this house been allowed to be built at a height which is out of scale with the rest of the Neighborhood? Cause there is no review process.

After yesterday’s ruling by Judge Martin Feldman in Federal Court it would seem that the bulk of the houses on “the agenda”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/ncdc-agenda-november-3/ will not be allowed to be heard. But of course there has been no official word by the City as to the suspension or deletion of properties not officially noticed as mandated by […]

“UPDATE”:http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/uptotheminute.cfm?recid=21206 Here is what I learned about Federal Court. No cameras but cell phones are ok. The first time we went in about a year ago they confiscated our cell phones cause they thought there was going to be a riot. Whatever “Here is the AP article.”:http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=9267724 and then a follow up after the Judge […]

This house is NOT on the list of Imminent Danger of Collapse This house IS

This house was declared IDC after Gustav. This photo was taken this week. Here is an interior shot I don’t have a photo of the “Central City”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/central_city_house_razed_befor.html Demolition As I type this I am watching the Historic District Landmarks Special Meeting to review demolitions. One owner got up and said he does not want this […]