The blight-fighting Good Neighbor initiative in New Orleans, launched a year after Hurricane Katrina flooding laid waste to many neighborhoods, showed promise in prompting cleanup work at thousands of moldering properties.
But Mayor Ray Nagin's administration in September quietly phased out the program -- without acting on 17,000 complaints submitted by residents at City Hall's urging, according to an official who oversees code enforcement.
The decision effectively halted enforcement of city laws that cover the condition of building exteriors. And it confirmed the suspicions of neighborhood activists struggling to get something done about nuisance properties.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
New Orleans' Mayor Phases Out Program
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