Independent voices from the TWT Communities
More than 3,000 lots flooded by Hurricane Katrina and bought with federal money in an emergency bailout sit idle across New Orleans — a multimillion-dollar drain on federal, state and city coffers that lends itself to no easy solution.
"Right now, it's an eyesore," she said. "It's not serving any purpose."
"The city ain't done a thing," a frustrated Carolyn J. Claiborne said on a recent day, scanning empty lots on her Lower 9th Ward street.
