1. Giant Page A-6 top header in the
Times-Picayuliar: "[Landrieu] Clan has 30-year streak of scandal-free politics".
2.
World Class selects a killer quote from Frank Rich's latest NYT
column. Then, Mistah Clio summarizes "the Big Truth" and "the Big Lie" regarding Bush's outsourcing approach to Reconstruction in the Gulf Coast (and Iraq).
3. Loyola Professor Bill Quiggly at
After the Levees writes one of the best encapsulations of the Post-Katrina Public Housing issue in New Orleans. I highly recommend reading it (as well as his recent T-P
op ed) if you care about the housing situation here, which is easily the second most important issue behind flood protection. But before you begin a rant on the benefits or non-benefits of projects, Section 8, mixed income "developments", Katrina cottages or any other proposal... do me the favor and answer Quiggly's question (my emph):
If the government told you that they were going to bulldoze where you live, and deny you the right to return to your home, would you [protest and resist?]
Can't people of all ideological stripes unite in opposition to this basic injustice
and solve that first, before wading into the familiar arguments about public policy and the poor?
4. I thought the
Festival of Neighborhoods was nicely done. Basically, the festival was a grass-roots, "bottom up" event with Information, Food/Drink, Art and Music-- all at the Botanical Gardens. I thought it was very well attended, especially considering how hot it was. Seeing regular folks put so much time and effort into revitalizing their stricken neighborhoods makes me feel very optimistic.
Good job, organizers and attendees. Bravo!
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7.
Oh horrors! How will the Detroit cabbies react? Should we rebuild the city on a non-floodplain? (More
here.)
8 Comments:
I thought of you this morning when I saw the flooding in DC.
re: #3. That's a straw-man argument at best. The owners of the property should decide what is going to happen to it. If the tenants don't own it, they properly are at the mercy of the owners.
Wow, Pawpaw. "Straw man?"
As a former landlord in a landlord-friendly state, I must submit to you that even lowly tenants have rights. They aren't "properly" at a landlord's "mercy". There's a contract. With obligations and provisions. If I fence off my tenant's apartment and change the locks and bulldoze their home and belongings-- believe it or not-- that's highly improper.
And let's not forget that it's the WORKING poor who are being penalized the most with the shortage of housing. If you formerly made enough money to pay your rent with no government assistance, chances are you haven't received a raise that equals the increased cost of rent in this city. Working families who are raising children and playing by the rules are getting SCREWED and can't catch a break in this town. But let's definitely get rid of inheritance taxes so people like Paris Hilton don't have to worry about getting down to their last $BILLION.
Oyster. Granted, there is generally a rental contract. In this case, have those contracts expired? Is the rent current? In every rental agreement isn't there a standard eviction clause?
There are a lot of questions here that must be answered to know whether those contracts are still valid.
I've got to agree with PawPaw
for the most part...
Every rental contract that I have
includes an "act of god" clause
in it in case the property:
1.) Burns down
2.) Collapses
3.) Floods
In those events, the contract is
considered null and void and rent
is refunded.
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