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Basin St. Blues: Iberville Housing Rights March, Dec3'05, New Orleans LA

by m.b.black
A band of housing rights advocates gathered at the Iberville Projects on Basin St. Saturday morning to march in support of New Orleans residents right to return home after the hurricanes, especially residents of Housing Authority of New Orleans public housing.
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Basin Street Blues: Iberville Housing Rights March, December 3, 2005

A band of housing rights advocates gathered at the Iberville Projects on Basin St. Saturday morning to march in support of New Orleans residents right to return home after the hurricanes, especially residents of public housing (HANO). With 80% of the city flooded from hurricanes Katrina & Rita, and over a million Gulf South residents dislocated from their lives, the housing shortage, rapidly rising rents, and lack of sustainable government supports faces many thousands of people who wish to return to their homes and rebuild their lives. Evictions - both illegal and legal - are epidemic in the New Orleans area and returning home or the lack of ability to return to a home, rain down further struggles on the survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In particular, people who needed public assistance to meet basic needs and the right to their home find the rug pulled out from under them as the city makes plans to tear down public housing, closing even livable and marginally damaged housing with little or no dialogue with displaced residents.
Despite the fact that less than 20% of New Orleans residents are back in town, a few dozen marchers gathered in front of the Iberville Public Housing projects just outside of the French Quarter to show support for the city's poor and working people and marched freely down Canal Street to the Federal encampment by the Mississippi Riverwalk.
The Coalition to Save Iberville, New Orleans Housing Emergency Action Team (NO HEAT), the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, and Common Ground Eviction Defense represented at the march and can be contacted for support of Housing Rights.
Housing Is A Human Right.


m.black
holographicferriswheel(at)yahoo.com

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