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I would like to begin this post by telling you before you read it how I felt after I wrote it. I felt like I was trying to compose an epic poem, and I am not a poet. That by introducing the element of cultural genocide I was going to invite the scorn of those […]

Don’t tear anything down.

The past few weeks we have seen a lot of attention being paid to the word demolition. It has been almost 2 years since I returned home to New Orleans. My own house is still under repair but since we have a raised house our primary living spaces are upstairs. So our day to day […]

We are working on the December 31 agenda. But here is one property on the agenda. This property is located at 4605 Magazine. Details are incomplete at this point.

“The City has agreed to let residents who do not want their houses torn down to have an opportunity to speak.”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2007/12/city_and_homeowners_agree_to_d.html

For months we have been working on this issue, so we were very pleased to see the “Times Pic”:http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1198054617220760.xml&coll=1 jump in. A special thanks to Michelle Krupa for taking hard look at the facts. Thanks to “Matt McBride”:http://fixthepumps.blogspot.com/ who has been diligent in his defense of New Orleans in spite of his relocation. The first […]

The day I drove into the driveway to tell this homeowner her house was on the Imminent Health Threat demolition list her family was busy moving her furniture out. They had been told that the house was listed in the paper for demolition and that it had been broken into [we later found out that […]

This suit has been filed on behalf of Homeowners who have had their homes demolished or have been threatened with demolition under the Imminent Health Threat Ordinance.

Thats what the D.J. on OZ said tonight…