[StBernard] St. Bernard Ready To Raze 400 Properties<br>

Westley Annis Westley at da-parish.com
Tue Oct 30 22:40:11 EDT 2007


This will be a great improvement. Just be careful. Demolitions and the
SLAB removals can destroy the streets, sidewalks, and crack the foundations
and sheetrock of the rebuilt homes.

Hopefully, the parish learned by Murphy's mistakes and can protect the
rebuilt homes this round of demolitions.

SJK


-----Original Message-----
St. Bernard Ready To Raze 400 Properties

POSTED: 7:36 am CDT October 30, 2007
UPDATED: 7:49 am CDT October 30, 2007


CHALMETTE, La. -- Although Hurricane Katrina's destruction destroyed or
damaged nearly every home and business in St. Bernard Parish, the local
government has taken the biggest step toward managing thousands of abandoned
properties that it will inherit from the state's Road Home program.

The Louisiana Land Trust has completed a process for demolishing the first
400 properties bought out through Road Home grants in the parish. The most
hazardous abandoned structures in the state's newly acquired portfolio of
flooded property will be razed at the federal government's expense.

Officials said most of the houses will come down within two months.

The Land Trust, a quasi-public land-holding entity formerly known as the
Road Home Corp., said St. Bernard will help show the way for cleaning up and
transferring properties in New Orleans and throughout Louisiana's
hurricane-affected areas.

Craig Taffaro, chairman of the parish's redevelopment agency, estimated St.
Bernard will have more than 5,000 Road Home buyout properties by the time
the program doles out all its grants.

He wants the Land Trust to clear the properties before it transfers them to
the parish.
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