The U.S. government must do more to return affordable housing to New Orleans, where low-income neighborhoods were washed out by Hurricane Katrina three years ago, a United Nations treaty commission ruled Friday. A good start would be for the feds to give displaced residents a say in the plans for poor communities, said the U.N. committee, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Should the government get community input in rebuilding poor neighborhoods?
A U.N. commission asks the U.S. to step up its game in NOLA
March 10, 2008 by peopleofcolor
