re: Whatever happened to those 9th ward homes Brad Pitt was building?

Doenst bon jovi have some homes around here too?

I know Bon Jovi has something to with a few house or maybe a street full of house in the Bayou Blue/ Houma area.

Pretty sure they named it Bon Jovi Street or something close to that.

Not sure about anything he did in Nola.

Wtf

quote:

---

Why didn’t it become hot? Most areas in NOLA are booming, no?

---

9th ward maybe?

quote:

---

quote: Why didn’t it become hot? Most areas in NOLA are booming, no?

9th ward maybe?

---

Holy Cross and Bywater are in the 9th Ward. Prices are up in those two areas.

They're still in the box

quote:

---

I just assume it's a bad area? Sry not educated on Louisiana, before anyone thinks I'm being a wise arse.

---

Short answer:
It was a terrible area. It's not nearly as bad now.

Long answer:
The Ninth Ward is the biggest ward in Orleans Parish. It covers all of N.O. East and out to Venetian Isles. Technically, everything east of Franklin Ave is in the Ninth Ward. But the area mostly commonly referred to as the Ninth Ward is south of I-10 to the river along the Industrial Canal. Upper Ninth is upstream of the canal and Lower Ninth is downstream.

The Industrial Canal connects Lake Ponchartrain with the Mississippi River. It runs right through the middle of the Ninth Ward. It's floodwalls failing is what caused all of the Katrina related problems in that area.

In the '40s and '50s, the Ninth Ward was a working class lower income neighborhood. By the '60s, whites were moving out of the area and it began to decline. By the '80s and '90s it was one of the most violent areas of the city. By the time Katrina made landfall about half the houses were ready to fall down without a hurricane. Somehow the Ninth Ward got spun in the media as some type of working man's utopia that had been leveled by Katrina. It was certainly leveled, but I don't think many people were working.

Brad Pitt had good intentions and quite a few homes were built. If you were one of the residents who got one it was the equivalent of winning the lottery. Harry Connick Jr was involved in building the "Musicians Village in the Upper Ninth and that project has been successful.

The Lower Ninth still hasn't come back to what it was, but a lower population density is probably a good thing. They've got new streets, something most areas of New Orleans don't have. Crime isn't as bad as it was, but it's coming back too.

"We finally got that sonbitch out the house"