March 7, 2021 Pearl River If you talk to many people in New Orleans who have been lifelong residents of the city, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — now more than fifteen years ago — is still an open sore and daily grievance. I was reminded of this stark reality while talking on Wade’s World to …
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Housing Shortages and Rental Squeezes
March 4, 2021 New Orleans One story after another in the mainstream media is now focusing on the shortage of homes for sale in city after city. The curious American dream of homeownership is another endangered species it seems, while at the same time the corporate and private equity grip on rental properties as …
The Mural Mile on New Orleans’ St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans For decades the ACORN headquarters has been somewhere around the intersection of St. Claude Avenue and Elysian Fields Avenue. We were ten blocks from the Mississippi River for many years, and we are again. The old riddle used to be, “What street has its head in the river and its feet in the …