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Originally Posted by RawAlex
What amazes me is that the state / city hasn't just said "we are sending in the bulldozers, everything is declared a total loss" and at least start the process of starting over. Too much stuff just ain't ever going to get fixed, it is just going to rot.
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They tried. The residents in those areas filed lawsuits and it took months just to get it worked out in the courts for the city to be allowed to remove the houses that had been relocated to public right-aways like in the middle of the street, lol.
I guess you haven't heard about the "NO Bulldozing" campaign or seen any of the signs posted in some of these "communities". Wooden houses all broken up, covered in filth, inside and house, many of them not structually sound any more, and these " people " will do whatever then can to fight the powers that be from bulldozing them. Why fight it ? Many reasons . The main one is because they can. Also because someone wants to do something, so like most people who hold a little power for once in their lives they want to use it and try to stop the city from doing what they want to do. Others will tell you they feel like you will be destroying their community (
like that hasn't already happened).
So what happens. The shit drags on while the state has to jump through hoops to make it legal to go on private property and tear down houses. They have to give notices and allow time for repairs, etc.. 98% of which wont be done, but it is a long process. The result is that many of "people" have be relocated somewhere else and the longer it takes to make their area inhabbitable again (bulldized down and ready for rebuilding) the more time they are kept away and take up roots somewhere else and get discouraged from coming back.
It's fucked up, but only in some areas. The two main are the 9th ward and new orleans east.
There is so much more to the story then what you see on the news. Sometimes I think the media gets 3rd hand information or just straightup changes it to fit the message they are trying to send. From going through this and seeing it first hand and then seeing what is reported I will never give much credit to what the media reports. Unless the reporter lives and works in the town he is reporting about, they don't even come close to getting it right. I bet that applies to all situations.