Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Peter F. Burns
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501700944
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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In Reforming New Orleans, Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas chart the city's recovery and assess how successfully officials at the local, state, and federal levels transformed the Big Easy in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Author: John Arena
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452933693
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 495

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In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromising defenders of the city’s public housing communities. Yet ten years later these same leaders became actively involved in a planning effort to privatize and downsize their community—an effort that would drastically reduce the number of affordable apartments. What happened? John Arena—a longtime community and labor activist in New Orleans—explores this drastic change in Driven from New Orleans, exposing the social disaster visited on the city’s black urban poor long before the natural disaster of Katrina magnified their plight. Arena argues that the key to understanding New Orleans’s public housing transformation from public to private is the co-optation of grassroots activists into a government and foundation-funded nonprofit complex. He shows how the nonprofit model created new political allegiances and financial benefits for activists, moving them into a strategy of insider negotiations that put the profit-making agenda of real estate interests above the material needs of black public housing residents. In their turn, white developers and the city’s black political elite embraced this newfound political “realism” because it legitimized the regressive policies of removing poor people and massively downsizing public housing, all in the guise of creating a new racially integrated, “mixed-income” community. In tracing how this shift occurred, Driven from New Orleans reveals the true nature, and the true cost, of reforms promoted by an alliance of a neoliberal government, nonprofits, community activists, and powerful real estate interests.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1412

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery
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Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Housing authorities
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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