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US Senate Renews Nat’l Flood Insurance Program
By WKRG Staff
Published: Thu, December 20, 2007 - 2:51 pm
Last Updated: Thu, December 20, 2007 - 4:52 pm
Last Updated: Thu, December 20, 2007 - 4:52 pm
Demonstrators are angry over the city council's decision to consider demolishing dozens of old housing projects to make way for the development of new, mixed-income neighborhoods.
The New Orleans Department of Housing and Urban Development says that the old housing projects were decrepit and crime-ridden, while the new development plan will place people in new and better homes.
Critics, however, say the plan is discriminatory, provides less housing for low-income residents, and will increase homelessness.
More than 50 demonstrators are protesting outside city hall, and many are pushing at the gates in front of the building.
One woman who was sprayed by authorities had to be taken away on a stretcher by emergency workers.
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