Former New Orleans Public Housing Residents Speak Out

When the New Orleans city council voted last week to demolish 4 major public housing projects with 4,500 apartments, dozens of citizens were pepper sprayed and tasered by police, who were preventing the public from entering the meeting regarding the demolition plans. The following day, a homeless encampment in Duncan Plaza in front of city hall was cleared out.  Some of the homeless took hotel vouchers, but hundreds of others relocated to under a freeway overpass.  The two events were seen as defeats for citizens who advocate the right to return for all New Orleans natives, as low wages and the lack of affordable housing already make returning difficult and extremely expensive.  FSRN's Andrew Stelzer spoke to former residents of the public housing scheduled for demolition.