HURRICANE KATRINA DISCUSSION

[mick]

me again, i think i heard these are going down for taxes and builders and developers get a tax write off.

RE:
In pictures: New Orleans clashes - N.O. approves demolitions -



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7154981.stm

New Orleans approves demolitions -

Partially-demolished housing block in New Orleans
(15 December 2007)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7154954.stm

Tensions have been high in New Orleans over a lack of housing
New Orleans City Council has voted to demolish 4,500 public
housing units despite violent protests against
the development project earlier on Monday.

http://www.haarp.net/

http://nwo-warning.tripod.com/haarp2.htm

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development
wants to replace the units, which were damaged by
Hurricane Katrina in 2005, with new mixed-income housing.

But critics say the development will restrict the stock
of cheap housing.

Earlier, police used pepper spray and stun guns
on the protesters when they tried to get into
the council chamber.

Several people were treated for the effects of
the pepper spray.
It is not known if any of the protesters were arrested.

Temporary housing

Following hours of debate and clashes outside the meeting,
New Orleans City Council voted in favour of
the government's plan to replace the decades-old
structures damaged by Katrina to be demolished.


Protester has eyes rinsed of pepper spray outside New Orleans city hall - 20 December 2007

In pictures: City hall clashes

Beforehand, critics of the plan had argued it would further restrict the stock of cheap housing at a time when the city is still struggling to rebuild from Katrina. They also said the brick buildings were still sound and only needed to be renovated.

"It is beyond callous, and can only be seen as malicious discrimination," said Kali Akuno of the Coalition to Stop the Demolition.

"It is an unabashed attempt to eliminate the black population of New Orleans."

But supporters of the demolition plan argued it would allow developers to take advantage of tax breaks and build new neighbourhoods with an allotment of low-income housing.

Thousands of families from the southern states hit by Hurricane Katrina are still living in government-funded temporary housing, including caravan parks.

http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/nwopopcontrol.shtml

http://nwo-warning.tripod.com/haarp2.htm

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