New Orleans: Housing Ocupation Enters Second Week

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• Interview with Resident from St. Bernard Occupation
• Volunteers clean up St. Bernard Housing Project
• MayDay NOLA dispatch
• Cleaning out the St. Bernard housing complex VIDEO
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New Orleans – The occupation of the community center of the St. Bernard Housing Development by former residents and activists (members of Mayday NOLA) has entered its second week. The building was taken over on January 15, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, when several hundred former residents and activists broke through the fence surrounding the complex. The St. Bernard Housing Development is one of the largest public housing complexes in New Orleans. The city and the housing authority (HANO) closed the complex after Hurricane Katrina. Former residents have had a difficult time retreiving possession from their homes in the complex. The city and HANO are planning to demolish the complex in March in order to build more up market housing.

“The only way I’m leaving this building willingly, on my own two feet, is if the residents tell me they are satisfied with negotiations, presumably by being allowed to rehabilitate their homes and live in them,” said Jamie “Bork” Loughner, 42, who identified herself as a veteran of low-income housing protests nationally and the founder of the new advocacy group Mayday NOLA. (Jamie “Bork” Loughner is a member of the Infoshop News collective…

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