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Environmental
Justice Resource
Center
FEMA has been quite active in Louisiana due to Hurricanes Katrina and
Rita. Here is an update from FEMA on what federal and state agencies have
done in the three months since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit Louisiana.
Louisiana: FEMA By The Numbers
Bring New Orleans Back
Our beloved city endured the worst natural disaster in this country's history. Although we lost a piece of ourselves and many loved ones, we have emerged with our spirit intact. Our pride in New Orleans will last forever.
New Report: Action Plan for
New Orleans: The New American
City
KATRINA AND THE SECOND DISASTER:
KATRINA AND THE SECOND
DISASTER: A Twenty-Point Plan
to Destroy Black New Orleans
Plans to rebuild
New Orleans spark
controversy
Angry residents expressed frustration Wednesday at the debut of rebuilding
proposals for this devastated city, taking aim at a suggested four-month moratorium
on new building permits in areas heavily flooded by Hurricane Katrina.
Plans to rebuild New Orleans
spark controversy
No Home for the
Holidays
In response to
concerns of housing
discrimination
against persons
forced to evacuate
because of Hurricane
Katrina, The
National Fair
Housing Alliance (NFHA)
conducted an
investigation of
rental housing
practices in five
states to determine
whether victims of
Hurricane Katrina
would be treated
unfairly based on
their race.
No Home for the Holidays:
Report on Housing
Discrimination Against
Hurricane Katrina Survivors
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) released today
a report documenting a significant incidence of housing discrimination against
African-American persons displaced by Hurricane Katrina. NFHA also announced
the filing of five
race-based housing
discrimination
complaints against
rental housing
complexes located in
Dallas, Texas;
Birmingham, Alabama;
and Gainesville,
Florida.
National Fair Housing Alliance
Uncovers High Rate of Housing
Discrimination Against African
American Hurricane Evacuees
Greening the Gulf
Coast
There is no question
that rebuilding the
Gulf Coast region
after Hurricane
Katrina should
employ the best
green technology
available and should
employ practices
that are
sustainable.
Will “Greening” the Gulf Coast
after Katrina Help or Hurt
Blacks?
Publications and
Websites of
Interest:
Policy Link
Angela Glover
Blackwell, Stewart
Kwoh, Manuel Pastor,
Searching for the
Uncommon Common
Ground: New
Dimensions on Race
in America, W.
W. Norton & Company
(2002)
PolicyLink,
Expanding Housing
Opportunity in
Washington, DC: The
Case for
Inclusionary Zoning,
October 2003
PolicyLink,
Leadership for
Policy Change,
Fall 2003
“Increasing Housing
Opportunity in New
York City -- The
Case for
Inclusionary Zoning"
(A Report by
PolicyLink and Pratt
Institute Center for
Community and
Environmental
Development)
"Regional Equity and
Smart Growth:
Opportunities for
Advancing Social and
Economic Justice in
America" 2004.
www.ejrc.cau.edu
Robert D. Bullard,
Glenn S. Johnson,
and Angel O.
Torres, Highway
Robbery:
Transportation
Racism and New
Routes to Equity,
South End Press
(2004)
Robert D. Bullard,
Glenn S. Johnson,
and Angel O.
Torres, Sprawl
City: Race,
Politics, & Planning
in Atlanta,
Island Press
(2001)
Robert D. Bullard,
Glenn S. Johnson,
and Angel O. Torres,
“Race, Equity and
Smart Growth: Why
People of Color Must
Speak for
Themselves,”
Environmental
Justice Resource
Center Report Series
(September 2000).
www.kirwaninstitute.org
john a. powell,
Racism and
Metropolitan
Dynamics: The Civil
Rights Challenge of
the 21st
Century,
Institute on Race
and Poverty, (April
2002)
john a. powell,
“Addressing Regional
Dilemmas for
Minority
Communities,”
Reflections on
Regionalism
(2000)
john a. powell,
“Urban Fragmentation
as a Barrier to
Equal Opportunity,”
Rights at Risk:
Equality in the Age
of Terrorism (2002)
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/releases/april.16b.2004.html
Sheryll Cashin,
The Failures Of
Integration:
How Race and Class
Are Undermining the
American Dream,
Public Affairs
(April 2004)
PolicyLink - Policy Matters --
Regional Equity in the Gulf
Coast
... and leadership
PolicyLink has crafted Ten
Points to Guide
Rebuilding in the
Gulf Coast Region. As
the rebuilding process
unfolds over time, ...
http://www.policylink.org/Presidents_Column.html
Equitable Gulf Coast
Renewal: Creating Housing
Opportunity Through ...
... inclusion of
meaningful community voice,
participation, and leadership
.
PolicyLink has crafted Ten
Points to Guide
Rebuilding in the Gulf
Coast Region:
http://www.americanprogress.org
Make
President Bush s Promise to
Rebuild the Gulf Coast
Region a Reality ...
PolicyLink, as Ten Points
to Guide Rebuilding in
the Gulf Coast Region:
...
http://livingcities.org/policies_open_letter.htm
NYRAG - Best Practices &
Resources
Ten Points to Guide
Rebuilding in the Gulf
Coast Region, based on the
principles
of equitable development. A
Gulf Coast discussion
thread in our Advancing ...
http://www.nyrag.org
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