Activists and Police Clash Over Housing in NOLA

The gentrification of New Orleans is well underway…

Would you expect that residents and hurricane victims would be allowed to return to their homes, as soon as possible?...

It seems that the “housing authority” has other plans…

If this were your home, what would you do?

Seven months after the storm, tenants said they want answers on the future of one of the city’s largest public housing sites. Several accused the Housing Authority of New Orleans of dragging its feet to appease a growing disdain for housing the poor in the city’s post-Katrina landscape.

“This is our home,” said Pamela Mahogany, moments after a small but volatile group of residents pushed and pulled on a chain-link fence in a brief tug-of-war with HANO security. The fracas ended when HANO officials called in police officers.

“Everyone who lives in the projects is not on welfare,” said Mahogany, a licensed practical nurse in New Orleans, now living across town with her 16-year-old son. “Everyone does not sell drugs. Guess what? I ain’t never sold none in my life. Guess what? I’m a nurse and I work every day. They got good and bad on the Lakefront. In Eastover, they got bad people. If you get rid of public housing, you’re not going to get rid of it (drugs).”

Home is home

Today, Mahogany lives in a home where the $1,000-a-month rent is paid for by a government-issued “Disaster Voucher.” At St. Bernard, she said, she paid $399 a month for a two-bedroom…

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