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AGFE to New Orleans: Day 2 - Charity Hospital and Mid-City Visits
By: HR2Housing
Posted: Jul 28 09
Witnessed: 1618 times
Regions: United States
Issues: Housing, Internally displaced persons, Natural disasters
Tags: development induced forced displacement, displacement, forced evictions, Katrina, New Orleans, public housing, UN, un habitat
Eric Tars, Human Rights Program Director at the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, reports on the second half of the July 28, 2009 site visits of the international Advisory Group on Forced Evictions, to the Mid-City area of New Orleans, where hundreds of residents are threatened with imminent eviction due to plans to construct a massive hospital complex that government studies have shown is unnecessary and disregards the needs of the community.
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