[StBernard] INSANE: State Bond Commission OK's Subsidies For Low-Income Housing In New Orleans CBD

[Westley Annis]

To me what makes no sense is putting **elderly** in the high-rise Texaco
bldg.  How many elevators will the bldg. have to evacuate these folks in the
event of a fire or other emergency?  Let's face it, they probably can't run
any foot-races.  And where will they go to purchase groceries or what have
you in that area?  Is there a grocery or pharmacy within walking distance or
on the bus/street-car route?  

This is nothing but a money-grab by Kabacoff for the tax credits involved,
just like Provident did in the parish.

The Saenger/Le Salle thing makes absolutely *no* sense whatsoever and that
kind of *crap* next door to a renovated Saenger will do nothing to help the
area.  It's almost like someone is *trying* to undo any type of renewal for
the area.

I would certainly have to think twice about going to a Broadway show in that
kind of environment.




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	INSANE: State Bond Commission OK's Subsidies For Low-Income Housing
In New
	Orleans CBD
	
	Posted by: MacAoidh on Thursday, February 23, 2012, 0:13
	
	Tagged with: Bond Commission    new orleans
	
	Just when they were FINALLY getting rid of the Iberville Housing
Projects,
	which constitute the worst utilization of prime real estate in North
America
	and represented perhaps the worst of FDR's New Deal federal abuses
(to think
	that Storyville, which by now would likely be considered one of the
coolest
	historical districts had it survived the wrath of the feds, was
razed for a
	housing project ought to make for a retrospective blood-boiling), we
once
	again have stupid government policy effectively depressing the
economic
	development of downtown New Orleans.
	
	Kabacoff might well be right that 120 apartments for broke old
people might
	not ruin the neighborhood around the old Texaco building.
	
	But Upper Canal Street is supposed to become something of a theater
	district. And having the place be overrun with bag ladies and
paupers
	doesn't exactly scream glitz and glamour to attract the swells to
the
	theater.
	
	Just on the other side of the Claiborne overpass from these two
state-funded
	slum generators there's a perfectly good bombed-out neighborhood
which has
	streetcar access to downtown and isn't going to be completely
gentrified by
	the new hospital construction there. Heck, just on the other side of
the
	approach to the Crescent City Connection and just to the lake side
of St.
	Charles Avenue is an ideal bombed-out neighborhood which also has
streetcar
	access to downtown.