(Opinion) How Gentrification Is Killing US Cities and Black Lives
“Many Louisiana politicians, business leaders and developers saw Katrina as an opportunity to destroy low-income housing and replace it with upscale condos and boutiques. Rich, white businessmen saw an opportunity and they didn’t hesitate to take it.
‘Nobody can refute the fact that we have completely turned this story around,’ Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in 2015, talking of streamlined government and year-over-year economic growth. ‘For the first time in 50 years, the city is on a trajectory that it has not been on, organizationally, functionally, economically, almost in every way.'”