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Andreanecia Morris, executive director of HousingNOLA, advocates for rigorous public engagement backstopped by data.
She said data shows a planning and leadership failure in
the Lower Ninth, where only 40 percent of pre-Katrina housing exists, despite
nearly two decades of rebuilding schemes floated after the storm.
Morris said planners should view housing as an essential
need, not a status symbol.
She said lack of stable, affordable housing gets in the
way of education, health care, job opportunities, criminal justice reform —
everything that impacts all communities, but hits marginalized areas the
hardest.
Morris said stats show a major disconnect between assets
in New Orleans and a methodical plan to solve affordable housing.
“New Orleans has a 23-percent rate of occupiable homes
and apartments,” she said, emphasizing that nearly one-fourth of the city’s
units could become an affordable dwelling unit with just some minor fixups
before move in.
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