HUD openly threatened to cut off funds for redevelopment if New Orleans didn't vote to go along with the demolition policy. HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson wrote Mayor Nagin pledging to withhold $137 million slated for "affordable housing" if the projects were not razed.They are ostensibly to be replaced--but with 5,108 "affordable and mixed-income rental homes," which will not be "affordable" to displaced residents. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.