Despite Superfund status, government and private investors continue to dabble in doomed Desire neighborhood.
Tag: Housing Authority of New Orleans
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use
Legislator's Algiers apartment deal receives state-approved bond money
Two years after House Speaker Jim Tucker (R-Algiers) pushed for a moratorium on state subsidies for affordable housing, a board he sits on has awarded $10 million in state-backed approved bond money so a nonprofit can buy an apartment complex Tucker owns.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
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 […]