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New Deal Ruins w/ Edward Goetz

The Dig

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How to Rearrange Poor People After Hurricane Katrina

I think that when I write about New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina, so it's just a great example of here's a major disaster that befalls not only the city of New Orleans, but most concentratedly those low-income communities. After Katrina hit in August 2005, the city just closed down six large projects. Residents were not only barred from reoccupying their units, they couldn't even retrieve their belongings in most cases. And the projects did not sustain serious damage. It was purely seizing an opportunity to.

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