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Posted on 08/22/2008 9:18:32 PM PDT by Prole
New Orleans has a far greater proportion of vacant homes than any other city in the country, due in large part to a lagging recovery in about a third of the neighborhoods that were badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, new analyses show.
The nonprofit Greater New Orleans Community Data Center released two reports Thursday, one of which used U.S. Postal Service data compiled in March to compare New Orleans with seven other American cities that have large inventories of blighted or vacant housing.
When it comes to abandoned homes, New Orleans is in a class by itself, the report indicated, with more than one in three residential addresses vacant or unoccupied. No other city surveyed had as many as one in five.
Detroit, which has lost roughly 1 million people in the past half-century and has become synonymous with urban decay, was No. 2 on the list. The survey found that 18 percent of Detroit's residential addresses are vacant or unoccupied.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
but my point was that these places all have two things in common.....Democrats and huge black populations.
To blame the ills of black culture strictly on Dems ignores black responsibility and capability and makes them sound dependent on political guidance to exist and impotent.
I don't believe that. I myself as a white southerner can stand full well on my own under any political environment. Right now I live in a quite liberal urban municipality..Nashville but yet I don't fall apart and get dependent and embrace thuggery and have illegitimate kids I don't take care of etc.
It's a complimentary relationship....those in a declining culture look for a party that will excuse them.
that is not the issue of the blight in this article which is more about abandoned homes and economic malaise and the crime that engenders but you have point that liberal policies make cities more unsafe...no doubt about it.
looks like Latin King stuff.
i mean this sorta aspect insome latin culture is endemic and has squat to do with Democrats.
go to Tegulcigalpa or Caracas or Jalisco or San Salvador and you find the same crap
it’s cultural and I don’t get it but I fear it and I watch for it.
Is it my imagination, or is that a horse’s ass on a horse?
You just can’t compare Mobile to New Orleans. Its a totally different crowd and ethic. When it became apparent that at least 150 police positions in the NO police department were bogus....the Mobile chief was likely standing there and wondering if he even had one bogus position. When the hurricane ended...Bama cops and Guard were on the scene...as previously planned and practiced. They did precisely what was demanded and protected property. Folks returned within a week or two to find most things like they expected. Mobile doesn’t measure in any degree to NO.
I made the correlation to Yasser Arafat because these "mayors" act more like Palestinians.
The "absolute power" mentality of Idi Amin is especially present in Kwame Kilpatrick.
Watch Ray Nagin lose it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGVSpqN8Glg&feature=related
Scenes :58 and 3:13 are awesome, but scene 4:00 is just a riot to hear.
I drove I-10 east of NOLA in June. There are miles and miles of neighborhoods on both sides of the Interstate that are deserted and rotting. Many of the houses have begun to fall into themselves from the rot.
Unbelievable!
"Hi Ho, Silver! Away!!!!"
Kwame Kilpatrick was/is pending 10 separate felony charges.
Why do these idiots expect Americans to respect and follow them?
It's just a depressing, sordid affair if you have to venture into Orleans Parish right now. Heaven help you if you get a traffic ticket for anything because you will NOT win.
Honestly, I was optimistic about the cleanup until I saw an NOPD car eject a McDonald's sack into the street.
I was always under the impression that 4 stars had to be special ordered since it is General Officer's rank.
I wonder how he got his hands on those?
LBJ’s “Great Society” and all that comes with it.
They are 10,000 times better than the NOPD.
I quietly listen to the Sean Hannity Show on 99.5 WRNO in the afternoons.
Do you have any idea how much hatred some (not all) New Orleans blacks have for Sean?
Their hatred is unjustifiable, and many of them stand with Jeremiah Wright and Al Sharpton.
Our Nation is basically Balkanized. Some folks side with losers like Wright and Farrakhan, and some other folks have the common sense and decency to listen to Rush and Sean. It really is a polarized environment.
While I understand Mardi Gras is part of the city's culture it didn't sit well with me that thousands of volunteers from all over the nation were in New Orleans and the “party” was the most important thing to a lot of the population.
Right about then I realized Katrina must not have been such a big deal after all. The falling in homes the re-vitalized crime rate the city's need to rebuild and still begging and b!tching that they need more but every year since Katrina there's been a three week party. My backward parents taught me to finish my work before I could play. Of course they wern't from NO
80% of the New Orleans citizenry, pre storm population of 450,000 people, evacuated before Katrina came through.
After the storm, the city was emptied of the remaining population and many of those people with little or nothing left and nowhere to go, were sent to all areas of the country. A good number never returned. Those who evacuated and wanted to get back were not allowed back in to clean up for almost a month. What went on in New Orleans could never be construed as a normal storm situation whereby it passes through and within hours you go outside and start working. The storm didn't just pass through, it's affects decimated every aspect of this large metropolitan city. In spite of that, the majority of the people here have done a tremendous job rebuilding and getting their lives back together. The greatest disservice that the news media did to New Orleans was lead the viewing public to believe that what they saw on CNN represented all of our city. It didn't and it doesn't.
Prior to Katrina, I listened to WWL each day. I had high hopes for Nagin, especially after the disaster of the Morial administration. I loved he weekly chats.
Mr. Nagin ordered the city evacuate from the approach of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. That evacuation was a total fiasco! Then, Ivan took a turn to the east and hit Florida.
I personally believe that bad experience caused him to wait too long to make crucial decisions re Katrina. The tracks of Ivan and Katrina were nearly identical.
His melt down after the storm is another issue.
Also, now that so much of the riffraff is dispersed to the 4 corners of the nation, The French Quarter has never been a more pleasant place to visit. I’ve been there at least 6 times in the past year. Very enjoyable.
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