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Posted on 5/28/26 at 2:17 pm to Hoyt
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It’s been 20 plus years since Katrina… what is the current situation in the Ninth Ward?
The blight and problems were evident long before the Katrina flooding.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 2:22 pm to Screaming Viking
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Danny, is fatally shot during a drug-related incident in New Orleans in 1999
The shooter, Jeffery Hall, was 15 years old at the time, and lived next door to my great aunt (several blocks from Holy Cross HS). She was white and lived in that house for 60 yrs and the entire neighborhood respected her. Aunt Teanie never feared where she lived, as she was a strong woman of faith. She was a music teacher and librarian who loved teaching the neighbors how to grow plants & vegetables. She was born in 1919 and died in 2011. Great write up below.
The Laurentine Ernst Garden is a community garden established long before Katrina. The garden’s namesake, Mrs. Laurentine Ernst was an avid gardener who lived on Jourdan Avenue. She was known for her St. Claude beautification project; she would carry buckets of water to St. Claude Avenue every day to water her plants. After Katrina hit, Ms. Ernst was displaced to Kenner, and the garden fell into disrepair. A Garden Committee was formed and met on a regular basis to maintain and plan the garden. The Committee established regular Garden Days, hosted waves of volunteers, and held events at the garden. Now a Backyard Gardeners Network project, the garden is used by neighborhood residents to grow vegetables in the five in-ground and raised garden plots.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 2:25 pm to Hoyt
every other block in Nola is third world
Posted on 5/28/26 at 2:36 pm to fightin tigers
quote:Not really. The 7th Ward includes Esplanade Ave and there’s been some gentrification around that area. Cant say any part of the 9th Ward is gentrifying.
the 7th ward is way worse than the lower 9th
Posted on 5/28/26 at 2:44 pm to yaboidarrell
Still plenty of deadly shooting's
Posted on 5/28/26 at 2:48 pm to yaboidarrell
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Cant say any part of the 9th Ward is gentrifying
Really? From St Claude to the river is filled with Nimby's and culture vultures. Holy Cross is trying to be 2010 Bywater.
This post was edited on 5/28/26 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 5/28/26 at 2:49 pm to Breauxsif
quote:No doubting that. Most of the violence happens in the eastern half of the 7th Ward (east of St Bernard Ave). The western half is noticeably quieter.
Still plenty of deadly shooting's
Posted on 5/28/26 at 2:53 pm to FOBW
The Ninth Ward is more than Lower 9. Anything below St.Claude before the canal is really not all that bad - Bywater. Anything above St.Claude you take your chances
Posted on 5/28/26 at 3:02 pm to gumbo2176
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I grew up in the Lower 9th Ward but got out of that area in the late 70's and it went downhill.
Katrina hit and destroyed that area, like much of N.O., but it has been very lagging in coming back ever since. Still many empty dilapidated homes and little to no infrastructure for the residents in that area.
No major grocery stores, drug stores, medical facilities etc. All of those require traveling either to St. Bernard Parish east of that area or across the Industrial Canal heading west and going farther into the city for basic needs.
Twenty plus years and it still has a long way to go.
Great Grandfather had a house on Bartholomew he lived in until 1985. Really declined 1981 through 86 and continued at an exponential rate. Family owned quite a few rent houses there and Katrina did family huge favors.....
But 9 ain't the worst part of NOLA.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 3:06 pm to Hoyt
They should have pumped it with about 20 feet of sand from the river after Katrina. Then sold it to upscale developers and solved a lot of issues.But muh, poor folks.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 3:31 pm to Breauxsif
I love nawalins baw FRFR
Posted on 5/28/26 at 3:44 pm to Hoyt
I wouldn’t say third world, but it’s third world for America, I guess.
No, it will not improve. It’s too large of an area to fix. A developer would have to buy large tracts and build new homes. But then, there’s no grocery or other retail. And you’ll still be surrounded by the bad area. So you can pour money into an area, but nobody will pay to live there.
The government will keep throwing money into it, trying to improve it, but that leads to only that-kind-of-person living there and the circle of ghetto keeps rolling.
The only way you can improve the area is for the people living there to WANT to improve their situation and the next generation. And they never will.
No, it will not improve. It’s too large of an area to fix. A developer would have to buy large tracts and build new homes. But then, there’s no grocery or other retail. And you’ll still be surrounded by the bad area. So you can pour money into an area, but nobody will pay to live there.
The government will keep throwing money into it, trying to improve it, but that leads to only that-kind-of-person living there and the circle of ghetto keeps rolling.
The only way you can improve the area is for the people living there to WANT to improve their situation and the next generation. And they never will.
This post was edited on 5/28/26 at 3:45 pm
Posted on 5/28/26 at 3:45 pm to Hoyt
Do you really have to ask why the 9th Ward is a shite hole?
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