New Orleans clippings - Filed under 'housing'

January 18, 2010

6,500 Katrina slabs to go from St. Bernard | DailyComet.com

Almost five years after Hurricane Katrina flooded St. Bernard Parish, the government is getting ready to remove the slabs from thousands of demolished houses.
It's being called the largest concrete demolition and recycling job ever undertaken in the United States. Engineers have calculated that the amount of concrete from the slabs across Louisiana could build a four-foot-wide sidewalk from New Orleans to Los Angeles…

Are Brad Pitt’s New Orleans Houses Making it Right? | OK! Magazine-the First for Celebrity News

Brad Pitt wanted to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina when he launched the Make it Right Foundation, to build homes in New Orleans’ blighted Lower Ninth Ward, but it appears the brightly-colored buildings aren’t as popular as he’d hoped.

Nic Cage's New Orleans Home Cleaned Out in Sixty Seconds | TMZ.com

No word on where the movers ended up taking all the crap -- which included carpets, tons of boxes and a giant stained glass window.

Green Rebuilding in New Orleans | Renewable Energy World

The ongoing effort to rebuild and restore the city of New Orleans has prompted a number of questions about exactly how to rebuild in the city. As it has turned out, the times are ripe for rethinking how we build and organize urban spaces and a number of people – in New Orleans and around the country – have called for an approach that offers greater attention to sustainability.

ZeroChaos Employees Lend a Hand to the 9th Ward in New Orleans before Industry Conference | Reuters

ZeroChaos, a global workforce solutions company headquartered in Orlando, sent more than 20 employees to the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) Annual Conference in New Orleans early to lend a hand to not-for-profit groups in the Lower 9th Ward working to restore the neighborhood four years after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in New Orleans.

State Sales Tax Exemption Extends to Modular-built Homes

A partial sales and use tax exclusion is available for modular homes and other "factory-built" homes purchased or used in Louisiana. Previously, the exclusion applied only to purchases of dwellings categorized as "manufactured homes," known widely as mobile homes; the sales tax exemption became effective July 1, 2009.

Fight Over ACORN's New Orleans Chapter Erupts | wjz.com

A fight has erupted over ACORN's Louisiana operations after the national staff fired the state's longtime director earlier this month, throwing into doubt the future of a chapter that served as a cornerstone to the activist group for more than 30 years.

Urban Strategies Wins $1 Million Federal Grant for Community and Housing

The recovery funds will help Urban Strategies assist former residents of the C.J. Peete public housing project in New Orleans - who are returning to the new community currently under construction called Harmony Oaks - in achieving self-sufficiency.

ACORN New Orleans HQ Closing, Up For Sale | The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog

The American Spectactor is reporting that the New Orleans headquarters of ACORN on Elysian Fields Avenue is closing and the property itself, a former funeral home, is up for sale.

New Orleans is home to greenest community | MNN - Mother Nature Network

At last week’s meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, U.S. Green Building Council CEO Rick Fedrizzi declared that the Make It Right New Orleans project is “the largest and greenest community of single-family homes in the world.” The project, launched by Brad Pitt, has 13 LEED Platinum certified single-family homes and plans to build 150 more LEED Platinum properties.

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