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re: Which historic NOLA housing projects featured the worst living conditions?
Posted on 6/22/21 at 5:17 pm to goofball
Posted on 6/22/21 at 5:17 pm to goofball
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That's the kind of crap the progressives came up with at the time.
Soviets infiltrated much, much deeper into the govt than we were told back then. The signs were always there, just more subtle.
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Posted on 6/22/21 at 5:19 pm to GreenRockTiger
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It was for old people and really, really poor families at first. My great grandma lived in one until she was kicked out for having a window fan (1950s).
Have a 80 year old friend that grew up in one of them, he would not have considered his family really poor. There were a lot of “white” working class families that lived in them initially. Women didn’t work, the men were cab drivers, milkmen, bus drivers etc.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 5:21 pm to goofball
you realize all of those projects have been torn down?
Posted on 6/22/21 at 5:25 pm to EA6B
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he would not have considered his family really poor.
No he wouldn’t. If people had a meal a day and a job they considered themselves lucky and were grateful back then. However, compared to the national average they were poor and qualified for the housing.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 5:36 pm to goofball
Desire.
Reminiscing driving on Alvar gives me more anxiety still, than driving on the ring road in Afghanistan.
Reminiscing driving on Alvar gives me more anxiety still, than driving on the ring road in Afghanistan.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 5:49 pm to goofball
The so-called worst living conditions were not at all bad for the time they were built.
When a lot of people were living in wooden shacks with no protection from bugs and snakes and rodents, when the walls could blow off in a storm and the roof collapse, every one of these buildings had strong stone walls, many had tile roofs, the walk ways were paved, not mud, there were firm clothes lines for drying clothes, and they were near public transportation.
What made some worse was the destructive behavior of many of the tenants and the lack of management intervention when destruction happened. l
When a lot of people were living in wooden shacks with no protection from bugs and snakes and rodents, when the walls could blow off in a storm and the roof collapse, every one of these buildings had strong stone walls, many had tile roofs, the walk ways were paved, not mud, there were firm clothes lines for drying clothes, and they were near public transportation.
What made some worse was the destructive behavior of many of the tenants and the lack of management intervention when destruction happened. l
Posted on 6/22/21 at 6:14 pm to GreenRockTiger
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The Lafitte wasn’t too bad - not even in the 90s
They had the highest standards for residents.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 6:22 pm to goofball
Democrats.
And can you believe there were protests to not get rid of these after Katrina?
It's actually sad. People living there want to stay living there off the government and not try to position themselves better in life other than rapping about living there.
And can you believe there were protests to not get rid of these after Katrina?
It's actually sad. People living there want to stay living there off the government and not try to position themselves better in life other than rapping about living there.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 6:27 pm to jlovel7
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It's incredible that's what they used to look like. They're actually much more attractive looking now and maintained pretty well. I pass by them pretty regularly and you'd think it's really any other development. They were smart to move away from the soviet bloc style housing shown above and move more to town homes and duplexes.
They looked like any old dorms.
These like like any of the new student housing.
The problem will be upkeep over 20-30 years. Which there won't be any.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 6:30 pm to glassman
I remember this
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Independence Examiner Archives, Dec 11, 1980, p. 12
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Fourth District officers said they thought the sniper fired from the top of one of the two Fischer Housing Project buildings toward the bridge's toll plaza, where several policemen were on duty. Police spent hours watching the housing project from the roof of the Sheraton Hotel on the West Bank, across the Mississippi River from downtown.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 6:32 pm to goofball
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- On Wednesday April 10, 1973 the body of twenty-two year old nursing student, JoEllen Smith, was found near the Fischer Projects, between Atlantic and Socrates Streets. She had been missing since Sunday April 8, 1973. When police found her she was barely clad and had suffered from four gun shot wounds to the head; it also appeared that she had been sexually assaulted. She had entered the community because she had been instructed to aid an elderly patient living within the Fischer Homes.
- On November 9, 1980 Gregory Neupert, a white police officer, was making his rounds, when he was shot in the neck. He was found the next day near the Fischer Projects, in a ditch.
Blacks hunting whites?
You dont say.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 6:50 pm to goofball
My 74 VW bug was stolen one night back in the early eighty's in Gentilly area. The NOPD found in St Bernard Housing projects a day later but the cop I met outside the projects would not go with me into look the to check it out, He said I could go if I wanted to but since it had no wheels, hood, engine or windows visible from a few blocks away he wasn't going in there. That's the last time I saw ole greeny.
This post was edited on 6/22/21 at 6:52 pm
Posted on 6/22/21 at 7:20 pm to goofball
It was legit scary to drive near magnolia in the mid 90s. I.was always armed. It was not unheard kf to be shot in the head through your drivers side window for car jackings (no chance to even give up the car).
I had to enter bw cooper once for professional reasons. Everyone was extremely nice and welcoming. That being said, that area of earhart was also known to be great for carjackings.
I had to enter bw cooper once for professional reasons. Everyone was extremely nice and welcoming. That being said, that area of earhart was also known to be great for carjackings.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 7:23 pm to goofball
Just from watching the news in the 80s and 90s I seem to recall St Thomas project having a lot of crime
Posted on 6/22/21 at 7:30 pm to goofball
Anybody wanna take a stroll with me through the occupied ones at 10:45 tonight?
Posted on 6/22/21 at 7:34 pm to Hangover Haven
Uh, are you a retard? You sound like a retard. Fischer was at most 2 miles from Franklin which ran under the GNO. Theft was a big issue in the 80’s. Moron.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 7:37 pm to goofball
quote:<——Knows one.
Later these officers would be remembered as the Algiers 7.
Heavy stuff.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 7:41 pm to TimeAndTide
Fischer.........dear God!!
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Claudia McGown & Leslie McGown Murder During the night of August 25, 1987 three children were hurled out of a window from a third story apartment building in the Fischer Projects, resulting in the death of an eight-year-old girl. Claudia McGown, the mother of three children, had been stabbed to death right before her three children were thrown from the window. The man accused and convicted of the crime was William J. Brown, the boyfriend of McGown, who had been intoxicated by a drug called “clickum Juice,” a drug later known as PCP. According to the papers the use of “clickum Juice” and heroin were widespread in the Fischer community and the innocent people living within this community were outraged. One of the community members that witnessed the children being thrown from the window saved the falling children by breaking their fall. Enraged, the community members retaliated by brutally beating him. He was arrested shortly after and charged with two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 7:45 pm to jacksajester
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We had a ton of fun at the OG Cottages pool. It’s quite unfortunate that it has turned into a BR housing project from what I’ve heard.
Those on Corporate?
Posted on 6/22/21 at 8:55 pm to goofball
I worked for Ryder Truck Rental as a mechanic back in the late 80’s and hod to go to the shop that was near Louisa street exit near the industrial canal bridge. Apparently there was a project near there that was horrible with crime. Some of the mechanics at that location told me quite a few stories about stolen vehicles including tractor trailer rigs that would end up at that project and the cops wouldn’t go in and help recover the stripped vehicles. Does anyone know the name of a project in that area?
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