Stop High Rent!
All Out for the Tenant Rights Hearing
Thursday, March 15, 2007, 9 AM at New Orleans City Hall - Council Chambers
The Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund (PHRF) and the Tenants Rights Working Group has been gathering signatures on petitions for the past 3 months calling for an end to price gouging and demanding the establishment of rent control in the city of New Orleans. We have all witnessed rental increases across the board. Apartments that rented for $500.00 before Katrina now ask $1200. This is another means of preventing working class and poor Black people from returning home.
We must all work together to demand safe, decent, affordable housing for our people. The city council, the legislative body of our city, has the power to enact anti-price gouging and rent control. Please join us as we go before the council to demand protection for renters and assistance to all of those who want to return home.
Its time to take back our city and stop price gouging.
For further info call PHRF 504-301-0215 or join the Tenants Right Working Group.
New Orleans residents - call your councilman to support our demands.
click here to download flyer with City Council contacts
Is there any citizen support groups like this for those of us who live on the westbank in either Jefferson Parish or Plaquemines Parish, rent is way higher post-Katrina in ALL areas. Those of us with low to medium incomes have to get roommates or we would never be able to afford the current rent rates in any area. Homelessness is a reality for many people who had stable lives pre-Katrina...it's sad that we have no resources for housing still!!!!