Public Housing in New Orleans ~ St. Bernard Projects

[Twist_U_Up]

It takes awhile to load but everyone NEEDS to see this

http://fluxview.com/v/Hurricane_Katrina_Relief/StBernard_NewOrleans_PublicHousing.mov

Link
http://fluxview.com/v/Fluxview-News-Video-2006.htm

[LeftyMom]

1. k&r

I'm still watching, but this makes me cry.

[Twist_U_Up]

2. Also...

the other vids on the link provided are also very disturbing and hopeful.

[FluxRostrum]

9. Rights is Rights

Thanks for reposting my video Twist... I rarely have time to spread the info too far on my own.

to the others..
The issue isn't IF the projects were safe .. or the kinda place YOU would want to kive in. The point I'd like people to get from this (and many of the other videos) is that these people have the RIGHT to return to their hardly damaged homes.

thousands of families are still displaced because these projects are closed. THERE"S NOTHING WRONG WITH'um.

In the background audio on my raw tape, in one place I heard someone say that her friend did not want to return to the projects because they were rat infested; to which the persoin responded "they were rat infested Before katrina why is that a problem now?" BTW i didn't see ANY rats that day.. actuallty have yet to see a rat in any project or anywhere in New Orleans... I think they drowned..

To say you shouldn't have Projects because the Police don't patroll them properly.... listen to what your saying for christ sake. Yeah, I don't want a million dollars either.. I might have to hire someone to carry it for me.

I've toured most of the Projects in New Orleans since katrina... ALL shouyld have been cleaned out and reinhabited within a month. They are built rock solid and recieved very little damage FROM THE HURRICANE.

This is the largest forced relocation of black people since slavery.

Our government (Democrat & Republican alike)
A) Caused this UNnatural Disaster,
B) refuses to let pooor people return to their homes,
C) doesn't want poor displaced new orleanians to vote for their new mayor,
and C) should not be trusted if an UNnatural disaster comes to your town.

I could continue .. but I'm not much of a talker.
that's why I make videos.
http://Fluxview.com

[Twist_U_Up]

10. Excellent site Thanks for your work

I will send your site to all my buds and coworkers to help spread this message
Are you in the vids ?

[EFerrari]

3. Thanks, Twist_U_Up

K&R

[bluestateguy]

4. That's why I tend to not like public housing projects

Why? Because the government is then your landlord, and when that happens the government now has the tools with which to control poor people.

I favor the Section 8 housing voucher program.

[Twist_U_Up]

5. Its not just the housing projects check this vid.

http://fluxview.com/v/Hurricane_Katrina_Relief/Saturday-VetsMarch-Gutting.mov

[pitohui]

6. you wouldn't want to live in either one

st. bernard was not fit for human habitation before katrina, and section 8 ruins neighborhoods because everyone else moves out, yes, democrats, yes, ME too

the police know perfectly well where the projects are and where the section 8 housing is, and they don't properly patrol either one, and the whole neighborhood becomes a crime zone

when you have a bullet going past your head in your own living room, as we did, you will have a different opinion of what section 8 does when it comes to your neighborhood

the answer, i don't know, but i figure it has to be something along the lines of 1) admit that section 8 renters don't pay their share so the vouchers should be for greater amts so the landlords don't stop maintaining the property, and 2) there must be equal police patrols and visibility in poor neighborhoods as rich ones, the police should not be allowed to even open their own crack houses in neighborhoods they think are on the way "down," i saw this, they were so bold i saw them drive up every week to pick up their envelope from the house across the street

we need a major major anti-corruption campaign that focuses on putting an end to gangs and to police involvement in the drug trade (clue one, 8th grade kids are not flying to colombia to buy these drugs, nor are their housewife mothers, someone is bringing the product to them and setting them up in this business)

i don't understand the nurse they interviewed who said she can't afford to live anywhere but st. bernard, i'm sorry, nursing is a well-paid profession here, i know many who are homeowners so it makes me think there is another problem, such as addiction keeping her in the projects

yes, she needs a place to live, but a SAFE place to live -- and a place away from the drugs

we don't need to rebuild the same miserable hellhole that we had before

it has GOT to get better than this

agree or disagree with my rant, doesn't matter, give the OP a recommend on the way out, i think it is a tragic story that people are so desperate as to want to return to such a place as the st. bernard projects and it says something abt our society that needs to be said

[KingFlorez]

7. Mixed income is the best way to go

Small scale, mixed income housing works better than this, poor people shouldn't be clustered.

[Sinti]

8. God bless these folks. Looks like it just never ends for them.

CEPTED works better than public housing done the old fashioned way. The places are very well kept, and well policed in a manner that is acceptable to the residents, cops develop relationships with the neighborhood rather than either being only there to take away their friends and relatives, or afraid to go in at all. Additionally, with CEPTED, people are given a chance to buy the homes. It was an excellent program devloped under Clinton, probably gone now...