In a desperate effort to ensure the leftist constituency returns en masse to New Orleans, the city widely regarded for Jazz, Gumbo and Crime will reopen much of its public housing facilities throughout the Big Easy, or should we say, the Big Lazy.

According to city officials, many units will be available for residents to move in to by this fall, enabling more of the city’s poor residents to return. Many of the New Orleans’ poor have complained about the slow pace of reconstruction and the lack of available housing for the poor. In response federal and local officials have pledged more assistance to ensure a ready supply of housing for the least productive in the city.

Soon, the drags on New Orleans society will be able to return to the Big Easy and do what they do best: nothing, while exhausting precious resources, that could be devoted to attracting private enterprise and creating economic opportunity for those residents not content to leach off the American taxpayer.

If these individuals want low cost housing, why not settle in a low cost community, other than New Orleans and perhaps consider finding gainful employment rather than continuing to feed at the public trough for an indefinite period of time. With this action it is clear the city of New Orleans and the administration of the hack mayor Ray Nagin, have no interest in boosting the city’s reputation, reducing crime or attracting new business, instead, they prefer to attract those with the least to offer the city, ensuring a power base for hack politicians who cater to their constituents with a philosophy akin to a slave master.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-06-14-new-orleans-housing_x.htm