Articles
Return to New Orleans
by Dan Croak
04.30.07 | Public housing residents of New Orleans remain scattered across the country. Many want to go home but returning to the same squalid and dangerous housing projects that were isolated cauldrons of dysfunction and pathology is neither just nor humane. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is trying to make things right but a lawsuit filed by the Advancement Project, a Washington-based civil rights organization, against federal, state and city officials is holding things up.