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GRITtv: Rebuilding New Orleans
Four years after Hurricane Katrina, the recovery and rebuilding effort has moved slowly. Even with a change of administration and a president who has made a commitment to the region much more needs to be done. According to the Institute for Southern Studies a survey of fifty grassroots leaders gave the Obama administration a grade of D+ on issues of housing, environmental protection, and using stimulus money to rebuild New Orleans. Renika Moore, Assistant Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Chris Kromm, Executive Director of the Institute for Southern Studies, Saket Soni, Director of the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice, and Tiffany Gardner, Human Right to Housing Director at NESRI on the Gulf Coast four years later.
Email this pageGRITtv: Four Years On: Housing Rights in New Orleans
Post-Katrina New Orleans has seen a steep rise in its homeless population, the demolition of public housing, and one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. Does New Orleans reflect what's happening in the rest of the country? Tiffany Gardner, Human Right to Housing Director at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, Sam Jackson of Mayday New Orleans, and Leilani Farha, co-leader of the International Advisory Group on Forced Evictions on the housing crisis in New Orleans.
