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Land Use

Reporting on how land, space, and development shape the future of New Orleans. This category examines zoning decisions, neighborhood planning, environmental impact, and the balance between growth and preservation—highlighting who benefits, who’s affected, and what’s at stake.

Save the Eagle Saloon! (From Whom?)

The save-the-saloon initiative is being perpetrated by the very people the buildings need to be saved from.
by John McCusker May 21, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Partly hidden mural breathes with spirit of 1970 Black Panther standoff

A relic from the era of Black militancy warrants the attention of scholars and preservationists.
by Orissa Arend April 29, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

What would Jane Jacobs make of our post-Katrina transition from ‘death’ to ‘life’?

A look at the post-Katrina city through the eyes of urban planning's most important 20th-century visionary.
by Roberta Brandes Gratz April 9, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Eyes on The Fly: How structural racism subtly undercuts plans for a ‘public good’

A deeper look at plans to remove another section of a public park from general use.
by Barbara C. Ewell March 16, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Evicted: How a landlord jumping into the short-term rental market cost us our home

We were model tenants — and then came the vacate order.
by Eric Aufderhar March 4, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

What to do with short-term rentals: legalize and police them? Good luck with that!

The shift to B&Bs — illegal and otherwise — is worsening the city's housing crisis.
by Roberta Brandes Gratz February 27, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

The strip-club moratorium is just a first step; much more needs to be done

Bourbon Street merchant proposes a way to rein in the proliferation of strip clubs.
by William Khan January 14, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Bidding adieu to the Vieux Carré as we once knew and loved it

Rich retirees from Dallas now enjoy the sanitized ambience of a neighborhood New Orleanians used to live in.
by C.W. Cannon November 5, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Missing Home: A look at what we demolished in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

Thousands of houses and buildings were razed after the storm. We went back to some of those properties to see what's there now. What we found shows how some parts of the city have rebounded while others struggle, just as they did before the storm.
by Thomas Thoren August 27, 2015 Updated August 31, 2015

Obama administration fell short in rebuilding rental housing, speeding up Road Home awards

Rents are rising faster than incomes in New Orleans, and federally-funded rebuilding resulted in fewer units than planned.
by Charles Maldonado August 20, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

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