Driven from New Orleans How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization 1st Edition by John Arena ISBN 0816677476 978-0816677474

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ISBN 10:0816677476

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Author:John Arena

In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromising defenders of the city’s public housing communities. Yet ten years later these same leaders became actively involved in a planning effort to privatize and downsize their community—an effort that would drastically reduce the number of affordable apartments. What happened? John Arena—a longtime community and labor activist in New Orleans—explores this drastic change in Driven from New Orleans, exposing the social disaster visited on the city’s black urban poor long before the natural disaster of Katrina magnified their plight.

Arena argues that the key to understanding New Orleans’s public housing transformation from public to private is the co-optation of grassroots activists into a government and foundation-funded nonprofit complex. He shows how the nonprofit model created new political allegiances and financial benefits for activists, moving them into a strategy of insider negotiations that put the profit-making agenda of real estate interests above the material needs of black public housing residents. In their turn, white developers and the city’s black political elite embraced this newfound political “realism” because it legitimized the regressive policies of removing poor people and massively downsizing public housing, all in the guise of creating a new racially integrated, “mixed-income” community.

In tracing how this shift occurred, Driven from New Orleans reveals the true nature, and the true cost, of reforms promoted by an alliance of a neoliberal government, nonprofits, community activists, and powerful real estate interests.

Table of contents: 

1. Struggles for Home and Community in the Postsegregation Era 1965-1985

2. Resistance to Displacement and Elite Divisions 1986-1988

3. Selling Privatization at St Thomas 1989-1995

4. Dismantling Public Housing from the Nation to the Neighborhood

5. From the Dreams of St Thomas to the Nightmare of River Gardens 1996-2002

6. Whose City Is It? Hurricane Katrina and the Struggle for New Orleans’ Public Housing 2003-2008

7. The Coalition to Stop the Demolitions

8. Lessons from New Orleans

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