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Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years’ lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. ~Arthur Young, Travels in France, 1792 This quote should be broken up a bit here. This house was a “bleak rock” after […]

What is the fate of Morris Jeff? And what is the fate of Wheatley? and on and on down the list.. “The Times Picayune”:http://www.nola.com/frontpage/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1219123468131300.xml&coll=1 writes of a building boom but if there is any boom it will be the “demolition boom.”:http://www.regional-modernism.com/2008/08/rsd-analysis-map-layer-one.html For a recap on “last night’s meeting”:http://wecouldbefamous.blogspot.com/2008/08/fahrenholtz-sure-does-read-fast-except.html as an aside after the meeting I […]

“Today’s TP”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/city_mistakenly_demolishes_cou.html If the demolition of the DeJean house was an isolated act then perhaps the level of anger and frustration would be much less, but months ago a homeowner left this “comment on my blog”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/homeowner-letter/. You would think the City would educate itself to process and procedure by now. Several paragraphs from the TP […]

“link to Insitute”:http://www.theneworleansinstitute.org/ “Out “of”:http://www.neworleans.com/neighborhood-associations/190-neighborhood-associations/1270-bunny-friend-neighborhood-association “all”:http://www.broadmoorimprovement.com/ the “stories”:http://www.helpholycross.org/ in the “recovery”:http://www.npn.music31.com/ there are none as “powerful”:http://www.staylocal.org/ as the “stories of”:http://levees.org/ “Citizens”:http://www.9thwardnena.org/home/ who “came back”:http://www.lakewoodbeacon.org/ and “demanded”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/us/nationalspecial/13activist.html more, “join”:http://www.ideavillage.org/ “us”:http://puentesno.org/ at UNO to “hear”:http://www.city-works.org/ our “stories”:http://www.gnocdc.org/ and “tell yours”:http://www.ccstb.org/.

I have started to photograph the houses on the NCDC agenda. One of them is a NOAH house 4516.00 paid to S&A Contracting Here is the “next agenda”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/ncdc-agenda-august-18/ I will be adding photos over the next few days. So check back later.

“audio of the Mayor at Council”:http://peoplegetready.jockamofeenanay.com/audio/wwl_raynagin_noah_citycouncil_080807_48k.mp3 h/t “Schroeder”:http://peoplegetready.jockamofeenanay.com/

“Times Picayune”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/new_orleans_suspends_home_reha.html

Last year at this time we were working feverishly on the issue of the illegal demolition of people’s homes. This year we have been working just as feverishly on the “non existant”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2008/07/12/noah-and-nora/ home gutting program. Our Mayor, “strongly admonished the reporter”:http://www.wwltv.com/video/?z=y&nvid=265870 and myself. The Chairman Ed Shanklin was equally as aggresive in his presentation and […]

The Mayor has a choice here, he can engage or he can disengage. The Citizens of this City have steadily pushed this Recovery forward. For all the bombastic noises coming from The Mayor’s Office and Our Recovery Office those of us are most actively engaged know who has done the heavy lifting for no compensation […]