The protests against the planned demolitions of public housing took place outside a meeting. The New Orleans City Council had voted in favor of demolishing the public housing in the city. Nine people were injured with four of them being taken to the hospital according to police.
Critics of the demolition plan explain that replacing the structures damaged by the storms caused by Hurricane Katrina with mixed income housing will mean fewer cheap homes. The fifteen arrests were made on charges from battery to disorderly conduct.
After hours of debate and clashes outside, the City Council voted in favor of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s plan to replace the structures damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
According to Endesha Juakali, one of the campaign leaders, the protesters would continue to fight on. They plan an all out effort to keep bulldozers from carrying out the order to demolish the public housing.
The demolition plan’s critics argue that the plan would restrict the stock of cheap housing at such a time where New Orleans is trying to rebuild from Hurricane Katrina.
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