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re: Which historic NOLA housing projects featured the worst living conditions?
Posted on 6/23/21 at 9:25 am to LSUcajun77
Posted on 6/23/21 at 9:25 am to LSUcajun77
Go to the Salvation Army.
I’m sure They can help you.
I’m sure They can help you.
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Posted on 6/23/21 at 9:35 am to jlovel7
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So there used to be a housing project in the garden district? Wow. What was magazine street like back then?
In that area it was pretty sketchy. But like most neighborhoods in N.O., one block could be okay and the next could be crap. The farther from downtown the better it got. This was in the early to mid 90s.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 9:46 am to LongueCarabine
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In that area it was pretty sketchy. But like most neighborhoods in N.O., one block could be okay and the next could be crap. The farther from downtown the better it got. This was in the early to mid 90s.
I think these projects really fricked up a lot of the city for a long time.
Desire/Florida projects were massive and housed thousands of people - many of which had a criminal history and contributed to New Orleans's crime epidemic. And they were probably close enough to Chef and New Orleans East to accelerate their decline.
I know these soviet-style housing projects were all the rage by progressive authoritarians of the 20th century. But it's still shocking to me that New Orleans had so many public housing units relative to its size. I imagine there were initially careful requirements and restrictions on residents there, but they definitely declined quickly. The city definitely kept them around way longer than they should have.
This post was edited on 6/23/21 at 9:50 am
Posted on 6/23/21 at 9:49 am to goofball
No doubt about it.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:29 am to tgrbaitn08
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they tore it down about 10 years ago
And replaced with something that will need to be torn down in another 10 years.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:48 am to brewhan davey
quote:You know good and well they look nothing like that now and have been destroyed. If they can afford a place to live, they’re sure as hell not taking care of it.
the government housing persists in new construction multi-family houses
Posted on 6/23/21 at 10:51 am to tigergirl10
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You know good and well they look nothing like that now and have been destroyed.
Slightly different architecture. Same old bullshite scheme that will produce the same result.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 11:16 am to tigergirl10
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You know good and well they look nothing like that now and have been destroyed. If they can afford a place to live, they’re sure as hell not taking care of it.
You’re actually wrong about this. BW Cooper, St Thomas, and Magnolia are the ones I drive through or by very regularly and they all actually still look like they’re in good condition.
For now they’re still well maintained. But the construction on these is much much cheaper than those sturdy structural brick ones from the 40s-60s. These will deteriorate faster but as of now they actually look a lot nicer than many unsubsidized New Orleans neighborhoods
Posted on 6/23/21 at 11:20 am to goofball
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And replaced with something that will need to be torn down in another 10 years.
Some of these are already almost 20 years old....If I recall St Thomas went up right after Katrina
Posted on 6/23/21 at 11:22 am to jlovel7
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You’re actually wrong about this. BW Cooper, St Thomas, and Magnolia are the ones I drive through or by very regularly and they all actually still look like they’re in good condition.
For now they’re still well maintained. But the construction on these is much much cheaper than those sturdy structural brick ones from the 40s-60s. These will deteriorate faster but as of now they actually look a lot nicer than many unsubsidized New Orleans neighborhoods
they are also mixed income and the tenants are held to higher standards of maintaining their units than they were in the old building that were built in the 40's
Posted on 6/23/21 at 11:47 am to tgrbaitn08
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they are also mixed income and the tenants are held to higher standards of maintaining their units than they were in the old building that were built in the 40's
They also have a lot more subsidized housing now, so the problem is pushed back towards private landlords in many cases.
The results will be the same, but it will hopefully take more time. They were really stupid with those high density public housing complexes with no background checks and almost no law enforcement.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 11:50 am to brewhan davey
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The structures are gone, but the government housing persists in new construction multi-family houses that look something like the Cottages in Baton Rouge (or whatever it's called now).
Who cleans the gutters?
Posted on 6/23/21 at 2:35 pm to goofball
WHere the Caliope?
Posted on 6/23/21 at 5:26 pm to Hurricane Mike
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WHere the Caliope?
Isn’t that the same as Cooper?
Posted on 6/23/21 at 5:46 pm to goofball
St. Thomas started as a whites only project (same as Iberville) but absolutely became a scary area. Redevelopment into the River Garden is directly responsible for the investment in lower Magazine St and the lower garden district in general.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 8:14 pm to tgrbaitn08
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you realize all of those projects have been torn down?
Yes, that’s why the title of the thread uses the word “featured” instead of “feature”—the verb tense indicates something that happened in the past.
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