HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CALL DESTRUCTION OF LOW INCOME HOUSING PROJECTS IN NEW ORLEANS ACT OF RACIAL CLEANSING

Submitted by ushrnetwork on ven, 12/14/2007 - 15:11.

Today, the US Human Rights Network (USHRN), a nationwide human rights coalition comprised of over 250 groups, and Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (AEHR), a New Orleans based public interest law group, condemned the imminent destruction of 4,600 low-income housing units in New Orleans that people were ordered out of after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. On Saturday, the federal housing authority plan to begin the process by demolishing 723 apartments in the CJ Peete projects. All the residents in the projects were poor and black.

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