Ten Months Post-Katrina
July 3rd, 2006 by Editor BFor our ten month update, I turn the helm over to Xy.
Ten Months Post-Katrina on Vimeo
Also posted to YouTube, or you can download the 5 MB QuickTime movie, but you’ll need QuickTime 7.
See also: Nine Months, Eight Months, Six Months, Five Months.
July 3rd, 2006 at 11:11 pm
[...] Xy and Editor B tell us about the Lafitte Housing Projects. Lafitte Housing Project, New Orleans, Public Housing, Video, We Are Not OK Posted by Alan Gutierrez Filed in New Orleans, Aside [...]
July 5th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
I like the way that Xy says “Access Denied!”
January 14th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
[...] The cause is just. We produced a silly little video about this issue six months ago, but the subject is a serious one. I know lots of neighbors are afraid of the public housing developments, afraid that re-opening them will recreate pockets of concentrated poverty and crime. I’ve got reservations myself, as public housing developments resemble concentration camps to me. But the answer to that is to revise the social contract with public housing residents, not to demolish thousands of habitable apartments at a time when the city’s suffering a massive shortage of housing. More to the point, not reopening these units seems to be further destabilizing our city. [...]