Now with Loyola’s Institute for Quality and Equity in Education, Andre Perry is pushing a reform agenda through research and multi-media messaging. Photo by Jessica Williams. One in a series of conversations with New Orleans educators Andre Perry describes himself as an education “thought leader”. His work has run the gamut from advocacy for immigrant […]
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The Public Cost of Eviction
The tenant skipped out before the end of the month. New Orleans landlord Donald Vallee wasn’t too surprised. He’d seen it before — and in post-Katrina, recession-era New Orleans, he’d seen it quite frequently. This time around, the tenant left behind a $643 per-month three-bedroom, 1,400-square-foot townhouse in eastern New Orleans. “It was a reasonable […]
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Lens Transcript: Lousiana Housing Chief Milton Bailey
Much of the plight of affordable housing in New Orleans and around the state lies in the hands of the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency, which helps provide financing to build housing for low-income households. The Lens caught up with LHFA President Milton Bailey today to collect his thoughts on the challenges of creating affordable housing […]
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The Bottom Line on Affordable Housing
Today the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center released the report “Housing Production Needs: Three Scenarios for New Orleans” where they explore the issue of just how much housing is needed now, and how much more may be needed in the future. What they found is that it’s extremely difficult to quantify the total supply […]