More than 100 people crammed into a modest conference room on the 8th floor of City Hall to weigh in on the committee’s vote, as New Orleans awaits sweeping changes to its landscape with the dismantling of 4,500 public housing apartments at four complexes: B.W. Cooper, St. Bernard, C.J. Peete and Lafitte.
Demolition at St. Bernard, B.W. Cooper and C.J. Peete may begin Saturday, said Jackson, but the process will take time and the wrecking crews might not even start on the first day of the authorized contracts.
The meeting drew a vocal anti-demolition crowd, hovered beneath a banner that said "Housing is a human right," and arguing that the government is trying to get out of the public housing business by handing over contracts and control to developers.
