| When: | June 13, 2006 |
| What: | March from corner of Napoleon Ave. and St. Charles Ave, up St. Charles Ave. to the gated community of Audubon Place. |
| Who: | Public housing residents, residents of New Orleans, and community supporters |
| When: | This Saturday, June 17, 3pm |
| Why: | HANO /HUD have threatened to demolish public housing in New Orleans and make way for so-called mixed income housing. This would take years to accomplish, while repairing existing public housing units would take just months. Yet HANO is keeping public housing developments in New Orleans boarded up and fenced off to residents, allowing buildings to deteriorate. |
Public housing residents and their supporters are taking their message to uptown New Orleans: if you want to Hope Vl neighborhoods, lets start with Audubon Place.
St. Thomas Housing Development was demolished and Rivergardens built in its place, displacing over 900 public housing families in the year 2000. Only 200 units have been allocated to public housing residents, and residents have had to sue HANO to enforce reoccupation of River Gardens.
Public housing residents are tired of seeing their neighborhoods demolished and housing largely built for middle and upper middle income residents. Residents and housing activists call for mixed income communities to be located uptown, in exclusive neighborhoods, where housing already exists.
How would you feel if the only home you have known was taken from you, demolished, and rebuilt, with federal Hope Vl dollars, for middle and upper middle income residents?
Hope Vl has become a scam for federally subsidized housing for those who don't need it, while it destroys housing for those who desperately need it.
So let's create more of a level playing field with housing, and Hope Vl Audubon Place.
Residents of public housing and their supporters are determined to construct a tent city, if necessary, in the gated community of Audubon Place, to bring their message home:
No "mixed" income communities at the expense of working class residents of New Orleans!
Hope Vl Audubon Place, and uptown New Orleans, and create housing for working class residents of New Orleans!
Reopen all public housing and rebuild Section 8 housing!
Sponsored by the United Front for Affordable Housing.
For more info, please contact Elizabeth at 504-319-3564
Community supporters needed for march this Saturday, June 17th. See press
release below for info. Come out and support public housing residents as
they take their message to exclusive, uptown neighborhoods!
Just say NO to ethnic and class cleansing of the City of New Orleans!
If you want to participate in the march, meet at the corner of St. Charles
and Napoleon, at 2:45. March begins at 3pm. Bring banners and signs, and
your commitment to the Right of Return of all New Orleans residents!
elizabeth cook
United Front for Affordable Housing
504-319-3564