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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 06:44 PM Original message |
"Horrid" NOLA Public Housing (PICS) -- which the Senate just voted to demolish |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. Eminant domain at it's best |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. Make No Bones About It: DLC Dems and a Majority of White (and many Black) Democrats want to kill PH. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-09-07 03:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
30. I should emphasize, I'm criticizing "mainstream" Dems from the left here... how to persuade them? |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. Save Public Housing in New Orleans (link) |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
4. Anyone interested? |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
5. I will keep kicking this until party activists stop ignoring what is happening now |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
6. k&r with thanks |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
7. I don't see the problem with abandoning public housing for mixed income neighborhoods |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 08:17 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. While they are fashioning their social experiment, no one is taking care |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 08:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Mixed income working well by same metric as welfare reform -- poor are no longer part of the program |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 08:45 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. There is an upside to mixed neighborhoods. It's much harder |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 09:02 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Because white liberals who move into these areas feel entitled -- even anarcho-punk kids |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 09:10 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I think you're preaching to the choir here. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 09:37 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Who's deluded? They are? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 10:39 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. You have now been antogonistic enough to make this long time |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-09-07 03:11 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. I guess you've no time for a thread urging passage of S. 1668 or honestly about who's blocking it. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-09-07 03:16 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. It's weird that you feel antagonized, BTW -- I am simply describing my experiences |
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ikojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 08:26 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Delete |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 08:35 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Coulda, woulda, shoulda. To quote Jack Sparrow, there is only what a man can do or can't do. |
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eyesroll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 11:09 PM Response to Reply #7 |
26. There's a shortage of any kind of affordable housing in New Orleans right now. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-09-07 03:08 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. "You can't offer rent subsidies when there's nothing to rent." -- Excellent point. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-09-07 05:01 AM Response to Reply #26 |
32. I am from New Orleans, so I am aware of these problems... |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-09-07 07:36 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. But you make it sound like we cannot convince people to "allow" them their right of return |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-15-07 02:35 AM Response to Reply #7 |
38. I didn't either, until I saw the income to be made |
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zabet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
8. k & r nt |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
9. This is a classist society. The rich have more rights in the U.S. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
10. I hate these motherf#ckers. |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-09-07 04:13 AM Response to Reply #10 |
31. Seconded. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
15. it's a case of how to lie with photography, isn't it? |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 09:26 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. No you're thinking of someone else. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-09-07 05:07 AM Response to Reply #15 |
33. I understand your view... |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-11-07 05:52 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Apparently pitohui believes no one but the rich, who have their elegant mansions, should be "forced" |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
18. For those who believe scattered site housing is the answer, do the math |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 09:12 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Did I mention the City Council passed a bill to confiscate poor people's homes |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
21. kick and recommend |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-08-07 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
24. Where people live |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-11-07 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
35. Bump. It is not too late to Pass 1668 |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-15-07 02:30 AM Response to Original message |
37. Still no interest? |
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