update: new orleans

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The leadership IS pandering to the demands of the wealthy. What the wealthy want is a richer and especially whiter New Orleans. That's what all this NIMBY-ing about the trailers is all about, preventing the housing project and Lower Ninth Ward people from coming back.

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That seems like a good thing to me. It seems these people were never productively involved in the economy of the city in the first place. They've been relocated, why in the world would anyone want to make an effort to bring them back? As the OP put it -

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pvn: The public housing residents won't be brought in until later (and apparently many of them have decided not to come back).

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I don't get it. Public housing residents get to choose where they will live, and be returned at someone elses expense? Those that can afford to return will.