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Driven from New Orleans - How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization (Paperback, New)
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Driven from New Orleans - How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization (Paperback, New)
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In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas
public housing development and their activist allies were militant,
uncompromising defenders of the city’s public housing
communities. Yet ten years later these same leaders became actively
involved in a planning effort to privatize and downsize their
community—an effort that would drastically reduce the number of
affordable apartments. What happened? John Arena—a longtime
community and labor activist in New Orleans—explores this drastic
change in Driven from New Orleans, exposing the social disaster
visited on the city’s black urban poor long before the natural
disaster of Katrina magnified their plight. Arena argues that the
key to understanding New Orleans’s public housing transformation
from public to private is the co-optation of grassroots activists
into a government and foundation-funded nonprofit complex. He shows
how the nonprofit model created new political allegiances and
financial benefits for activists, moving them into a strategy of
insider negotiations that put the profit-making agenda of real
estate interests above the material needs of black public housing
residents. In their turn, white developers and the city’s black
political elite embraced this newfound political “realism”
because it legitimized the regressive policies of removing poor
people and massively downsizing public housing, all in the guise of
creating a new racially integrated, “mixed-income” community.
In tracing how this shift occurred, Driven from New Orleans reveals
the true nature, and the true cost, of reforms promoted by an
alliance of a neoliberal government, nonprofits, community
activists, and powerful real estate interests.
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