re: Bitch Mitch Blames past Nola failures on statues

Nola's failures go way back.

1933 - public works department created the Emergency Housint corporation
1934 - National housing act of '34
1937 - US Housing Autority was created.

And so on and so on... this is the time period you created these huge arse projects in the urban centers.

1944 and the next couple decades during and post war you had the Serviceman Readjustment Act (GI bill)
1947 - Congress est the Housing and Home financing agency

-The VA, HOLO, FHA
-'exclusionary covenants' were written into title deeds and r al estate neighborhood redlining.

-suburban expansion post-war took off while many blacks in the south were effectively barred from homeownership.

-in the race to the burbs, business and manufacturing followed the middle class

Leaving these massive projects like the St Thomas and Desire to turn into breeding grounds for the poor.


New Orleans was on the forefront of all this meddling by the federal government into housing and what we have now is the end result.

None of this will be reversed over night. But seeing how the vicious cycle was started and perpetuated is the only way to find a way out of this decay.

I don't think government policy to fix government policy is the way to go.


I have family that lived here in public housing at this time period and have heard stories of the drastic change/complete 180 that happend in some instances less than a decade.

Let the downvotes come.

I would say yes


But either way, we can point blame wherever we want, as long as we understand what got us to this point.

And yes part of that is systemic racism, racism today still seen by the dem party. let the DVs rain down

I was more just thinking about the Democratic Party wanting to keep the black race under their thumb as a voting block and depending on the Dems. Democrats are racist in the fact that they think blacks can't pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. You disagree?

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"There's a reason why in 1960, New Orleans had 680,000 people, and now Houston and Atlanta dwarf us...they are more inclusive and progressive cities," Landrieu said.

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NASA helped put Houston on the map. Not there in 1960. Of course, he'll omit that part.

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"There's a reason why in 1960, New Orleans had 680,000 people

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It's called Moon's failures

Alanta was newer - oldest building in 1960 was 95 years old

And if he could run again, he would still get what...70% of the vote?

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NASA helped put Houston on the map. Not there in 1960. Of course, he'll omit that part.

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NOLA has/had a NASA facility as well.

I know. I'm just pointing out that NOLA has had opportunities to succeed and has largely squandered them.

What did Houston have that we didn't that caused the oil and gas companies to go there? We have the advantage of being much closer to the offshore action, and we got terribly passed by.