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  2. Housing Authority of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    In 1936, the Louisiana Legislature passed the Housing Authority Act, allowing for the creation of the Housing Authority of New Orleans and paving the way for the city to participate in the national low-rent housing program. Some of the first developments broke ground between 1938 and 1940 over slums and old stores in the Tremé and Uptown area ...

  3. St. Thomas Development - Wikipedia

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    St. Thomas Development was a notorious housing project in New Orleans, Louisiana.The project lay south of the Central City in the lower Garden District area. As defined by the City Planning Commission, its boundaries were Constance, St. Mary, Magazine Street and Felicity Streets to the north; the Mississippi River to the south; and 1st, St. Thomas, and Chippewa Streets, plus Jackson Avenue to ...

  4. Florida Projects - Wikipedia

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    Housing Authority of New Orleans Florida Avenue Projects or Florida Projects is a public housing project in the city of New Orleans . The development was built in 1946 on an 18.5-acre tract of land bounded by Florida Avenue and North Dorgenois, Mazant and Gallier streets in the Upper 9th Ward.

  5. Fischer Projects - Wikipedia

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    Housing Authority of New Orleans The William J. Fischer Housing Development , better known as the Fischer Projects , was a housing project in Algiers, New Orleans , Louisiana, United States. It was known notoriously for a series of high-profile murders in the 1970s and 1980s. [ 1 ]

  6. Section 8 (housing) - Wikipedia

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    The main Section 8 program involves the voucher program. A voucher may be either "project-based"—where its use is limited to a specific apartment complex (public housing agencies (PHAs) may reserve up to 20% of its vouchers as such [11])—or "tenant-based", where the tenant is free to choose a unit in the private sector, is not limited to specific complexes, and may reside anywhere in the ...

  7. Magnolia Projects - Wikipedia

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    In 2001-02, demolition of portions of the projects began as part of a Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) revitalization plan. By 2005, only the 1955 expansion had been razed. The majority of the remaining buildings were vacant and fenced off, with only a portion still occupied, when the area flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ...

  8. Iberville Projects - Wikipedia

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    Iberville Projects was a neighborhood in the city of New Orleans and one of the low-income Housing Projects of New Orleans. The Iberville was the last of the New Deal-era public housing remaining in the city. Its boundaries were St. Louis Street, Basin Street, Iberville Street, and North Claiborne Avenue.

  9. The New Faubourg Lafitte - Wikipedia

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    President Obama chats with a young resident of New Faubourg Lafitte during his August 2015 visit to New Orleans. New Faubourg Lafitte is a residential development in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. It largely occupies the area formerly filled by the since demolished Lafitte Projects public housing. In 2011, the first homes were constructed on a 27 ...