a number of important houses were spared today, “click here and see”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/ncdc-agenda-july-7/
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NCDC meeting July 7
Here is a “link”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/ncdc-agenda-july-7/ to the entire agenda.
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Speaking of Code Enforcement
This house was in the process of being primed to paint it The City cited it for code violation Here is it 2 weeks later.. Now the owner has to go to City Hall to prove the house is not in violation.
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Happy 4th
Here is our holiday NOAH house. owned by a family trust and just hauled into Code Enforcement Court NOAH claims to have remediated it, but if they did it would have been in violation of the program guidelines. But by the looks of it NOAH did not board and gut they just claimed to have […]
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Another NOAH property
So here we have a program for the elderly and seniors claiming to have done work for “seniors and the poor”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews-20%2F1173764562304190.xml&coll=1 but this house which is owned by Orleans Metroplitan Housing is on the list. So go back in your time machines and let’s revisit “Orleans Metropolitan Housing”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1151823733170410.xml&coll=1&thispage=1 and then take another look at this […]
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15 million ???..really?..
“link to article”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1173764562304190.xml&coll=1 H/T to the “Librarians”:http://bayoustjohndavid.blogspot.com/2008/06/yahoo-and-google.html
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Todays NOAH house
This house is located at 136 S Alexander and it is listed as “remediated” by NOAH. Well it does not look remediated, in fact it is owned not by an elderly homeowner, which is called for in the guidelines. It is owned by a negligent property owner who has already had 2 houses collapse.
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What is up with this?
I have not been able to find the exact value of the contract. Maybe one of my “smarter”:http://bayoustjohndavid.blogspot.com/ “faster”:http://righthandthief.blogspot.com/ “friends”:http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/ can help. All I know is New Orleans Affordable Housing was awarded a contract between 2 and 4 million dollars to gut and remediate homes. This is the tip of the iceberg, or should I […]
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Lockett School
While we await the fate of many other schools, Lockett has met it’s fate. And today Let’s see what becomes of this site with the release of the Master Plan.
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Everything New is Old again…
Heritage is not just defined by a prescribed number of years. There are Modern Masterpieces. Sadly some of which we have lost, with callousness and arrogance.. And then there are those which are threatened. “Come meet fellow architectural enthusiasts”:http://www.regional-modernism.com/2008/06/docomomo-new-orleans_25.html and see what can be done and needs to be done.