New Orleans Survivors to be Barred from Cleaning up their Apartments

"The housing authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has run New Orleans’ public housing since 2002, say damage from Hurricane Katrina has left thousands of apartments in housing projects unsafe. The agencies have approved plans to demolish the city’s four largest public housing complexes and other smaller sites."

"Attorneys for the Housing Authority of New Orleans e-mailed notice of their plans on Saturday to an attorney for tenants of the St. Bernard Housing Development. A handful of residents there joined hundreds of protesters for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleanup of the development."

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Katrina recovery head says feds working to bring jobs to New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS - The federal government hopes to talk 100 of the country’s top firms into bringing 100 jobs each to New Orleans to help the city recover from Hurricane Katrina, the head of the federal recovery operation said.
The object is to help rebuild the city’s middle class, Donald Powell, the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding, told The Associated Press.
Diversifying the city’s economy is a key part of New Orleans’ recovery, along with dealing with issues ranging from insurance and housing to health care, education and crime, Powell said in a telephone interview Friday from Washington.

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