Land of Opportunity
Undoing Residential Caste Continues in New Orleans
The video is intentionally pictorial for an audience to consider the correlation made between:
Art Placemaking quantity found in New Orleans’ suburban neighbors of Jefferson, yet not in the culturally, internationally known city’s own suburbs
Diversity in Housing Types with renters in Jefferson apartments immediately adjacent homeowners in upper-income communities that New Orleans’ single family subdivisions continue to fight
Average Median Household Incomes lower in shown Jefferson subdivisions than Orleans’ subdivisions, yet Jefferson has greater neighborhood wellness, economic activity, and access to opportunity.
Jefferson-Orleans Suburban Diametrics
Many of New Orleans’ culture bearers reside in New Orleans East, a suburb. Almost all work outside of New Orleans East, contributing millions annually to the city’s cultural economy in a myriad of forms with relatively zero community building impact on the suburbs where they live. Over investment and exclusion in affluent, white, majority space with disinvestment elsewhere, particularly in majority African American spaces hoards opportunity through systems: Exclusionary Zoning & Boundaries of Jurisdictions. These are polite words for segregation.
This video link shows the average median income of a few regional, suburban neighborhoods that are adjacent to New Orleans East. The purpose of the video is to continue sharing demographic data that aids in Renter Residents seen as Citizens rather than Stereotyped Underclass Women and Men.
Georgetown Law professor Sheryll Cashin quickly outlines 3 Anti-African American neighborhood processes, with 1 noted as "Boundary Maintenance" and municipal system's disparate impact on struggling suburbs. Book: "White Space Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality,” Check her out.
ZONING UPDATES
New Orleans East Future Land Use Map Amendments Support
Understanding historical, urban planned processes are “beautiful” in that they serve as a guide to be utilized as specific actions to be abolished, reversed, or evolved.
How Open is New Orleans for Business
Houston is the only American city with no zoning.
A look at the City of Houston’s Zoning Policy demonstrates a Free-er Market managing the macro and not majoring in the minor of each and every private parcel.
How have New Orleans East’s public policies provided a Welcoming Business Climate?
Community Building through Building
