Gentrification might kill New Orleans before climate change...

Not reading because it pisses me off how the left is a-ok with places being crime infested, government subsidized shitholes because white man bad.

Glad to see some more old buildings being torn down. Nothing says culture and class like seeing buildings just off I-10 totally covered in spraypaint.
The tear down the outside layers and the next day the clean inside walls are covered in new paint by daybreak.

To help with my stocks in Krylon...Tear that stuff down.

White man is bad and causes cities to be bad, per Liberal progressive anti American media narrative. White man (self loathing) rides in on white horse to gentrify and he is again bad. Confirms white man is just bad. Get the white man.

I dont know what pctge pays taxes but i left for that reason: i paid taxes but my needs werent met. Schools were shite, roads not much better and if i needed police or fire, I was on my own.

These lugnuts have the craziest view.

They want the stable families and neighborhoods to be forced to segregate with the unstable, but they don't want the more stable families encroaching on the poor.

It's like they see that taking 4.5 gallons of horse shite and adding it to .5 gallons of ice cream makes 5 gallons of horse shite but think that adding 4.5 gallons of ice cream to .5 gallons of horse shite makes 5 gallons of ice cream.

They think that turning blighted, crime-ridden neighborhoods into peaceful havens for families and children is just a well-run government program away. It's like they can't conceive that many in these neighborhoods are there because of their own choices in continuing to make bad decisions in life.

...and here we go:

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The city has become less populous, less black, more white, richer at its historic center and poorer in many surrounding neighborhoods.

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The owners of The Advocate, John and Dathel Georges, a conservative billionaire...

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John Georges is neither a conservative nor billionaire.

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He did so in part, he said, because he didn’t want to work for a newspaper owned by a man who had twice run for public office. Mr. Georges is a Republican kingmaker and suspiciously viewed by many New Orleanians as the enemy within, much as the Anglos who started The Picayune were viewed.

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He's neither a Republican nor a king maker, and he's Greek (not Anglo), to boot. Sounds to me like Jarvis just didn't want to work for a white man.

The author also left off the removal of statues that had been in place for over 100 years that were just as much a part of the cityscape as the musicians and chefs.

My cousin has been buying, renovating, and renting out houses in the Bywater for years. He has about 15 houses and says he has only rented to yuppies from California, Texas, and the Northeast the last few years. These are mostly young couples that work in the medical or tech fields and the cost of houses has nearly doubled in the last 5 years in the area. Give it time and Bywater won't be such a huge piece of shite.

Place should have become a landfill after Katrina...

Much of the city was a landfill actually. Personally, NO has lost most of its authenticity and its best years are in the past.