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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.
On June 27, 2006, a class action lawsuit was filed by displaced residents of New Orleans public housing to challenge the plan of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to reduce the number of public housing units in the city from 5,100 before Hurricane Katrina to only 2,000 units.
St. Bernard Projects was a housing project in the city of New Orleans.A subdistrict of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission were: Harrison Avenue to the north, Paris Avenue to the east, Lafreniere Street and Florida Avenue to the south and Bayou St. John to the west.
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.
The various New Orleans housing projects are most notable for being the launching ground for bounce and New Orleans rap. The most well-known artists to come out of the Magnolia Projects are Juvenile and Turk , members of the Hot Boys , a rap group who started their careers on Cash Money Records , a record label Started by Birdman and Slim tha ...
During its early years, it was labeled as the largest and finest U.S. Housing Authority low-rent project in the South. Lafitte was the fifth of six local housing projects to be built in New Orleans. [2] In the 1980s, the project began to rapidly decline as crack-cocaine flooded Treme. Living conditions also became a problem as well as crime.
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 ...
The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center v. HUD brought to light racially discriminatory impacts of the Road Home Program's practical design. This suit alleged that the algorithm used by the program to determine how much money to grant in each case was inherently biased, even if unintentionally.