WED 11/18 | Policy-makers have focused on housing to jump-start New Orleans' sluggish recovery, but a new report finds nearly half of the city's employee's make less than $35,000 a year -- a big barrier to finding an affordable home. More...
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A New Orleans resident facing eviction barricaded himself in his apartment last week and fired an assault rifle into his neighborhood. As Jordan Flaherty of Justice Roars reports, the incident highlights the housing crisis that's deepening in that city and others around the nation. More...
In light of the continuing affordable housing crisis in post-Katrina New Orleans, advocates are worried about the local housing authority's lackluster efforts to inform residents about a rare chance to get housing assistance. More...
Progress has been made on many fronts in the last few years, but New Orleans' housing crisis shows how federal and state policies have failed to help the region's most vulnerable residents rebuild. More...
New Orleans' low-income residents and communities of color are finding themselves locked out of housing in the city. More...
An United Nations advisory group headed to New Orleans this week on a fact-finding mission to investigate housing issues related to the displacement of Gulf Coast residents following Hurricane Katrina. More...
Last week a UN special rapporteur on racism offered recommendations to the United States to address ongoing issues of racial discrimination, including the treatment of Katrina survivors. More...
As the hurricane season opens, officials on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts are concerned about the record number of foreclosed homes -- which when left unsecured could become sources of dangerous wind-blown debris and damage neighboring homes in already-struggling communities. More...
In a matter of days, thousands in the Gulf Coast will face eviction from their FEMA trailers. Advocates are now calling on the federal government to intervene and extend the deadline, and uphold its promise to rebuild the Gulf Coast. More...
In the "new" New Orleans, housing is being built in a manner inaccessible to people with disabilities. James Perry discusses the first audit study on disability discrimination in New Orleans housing since Hurricane Katrina. More...
By the end of the month, the thousands of Hurricane Katrina survivors still living in FEMA trailers will face final evictions. But many have nowhere else to go. More...
FRI 4/3 | If you're in New Orleans this weekend, it's not too late to check out Patois, a film festival exploring social-justice issues both in Louisiana and across the nation and globe. More...
Far-right commentators are blaming "illegal aliens" for the subprime mortgage meltdown and subsequent crisis. They're not telling the truth. More...
Freddie Mac awarded a contract to a Florida-based subprime loan servicer with a history of customer dissatisfaction and run-ins with the government for a pilot program to help 5,000 homeowners. More...
Warning that the onset of cold weather could have "disastrous consequences" for families who have been camping out or sleeping in cars on their property, Texas Gov. Rick Perry Governor Rick Perry has written a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency requesting $300 million to create an alternative temporary housing program for Hurricane Ike victims to supplement the existing FEMA program. More...
Advocacy groups including the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the National Fair Housing Alliance, as well as five African-American homeowners in New Orleans, filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday against... More...
Thousands of low-income households have been unable to return to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-assisted properties in New Orleans more than three years after Hurricane Katrina. Many low-income tenants continue to face bureaucratic nightmares and delays that... More...
Since Hurricane Ike crashed into the Texas coast last month, residents of hard-hit areas have encountered problems finding a place to stay while the region recovers -- and government at all levels has failed to provide adequate help for the... More...
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