I have not been able to find the exact value of the contract. Maybe one of my smarter faster friends can help.
All I know is New Orleans Affordable Housing was awarded a contract between 2 and 4 million dollars to gut and remediate homes.
This is the tip of the iceberg, or should I say one of the icebergs.
While I was out surveying houses today I shot one of the houses that had been gutted by the NOAH program. It is also on the City Demolition list, the Imminent Health threat list.
So to recap, the City spent CBDG funds to clean out the house and then spends FEMA funds to demolish it. The other comical element is that the signs are NEW and they still have Donna Addkison listed as a City employee. In the last 2 years I have seen 4 of these signs and all of them in the last month.
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e // Jun 29, 2008 at 12:28 am
Sleuth.
Day 1039: Transparency, But Not The Good Kind : Maitri’s VatulBlog // Jul 1, 2008 at 6:15 pm
[…] I was almost ready to gloss over Karen’s and E’s posts on the increasing likelihood of wrongdoings on the part of New Orleans Affordable Housing, Inc. and to chalk it up to just another carefully-placed hole in the New Orleans treasury. Everyone and their dog has been robbing New Orleans blind and for decades, so what is another 2 to 4 million dollars? […]
b.rox » Blog Archive » Profiles in Bloggage, Part 1 // Jan 18, 2011 at 2:05 pm
[…] Fast forward another year. In the summer of 2008, Karen began asking questions about New Orleans Affordable Housing (NOAH) on her blog. At first, it looked as if the City was allocating FEMA money to NOAH to gut and remediate houses, and later spending more FEMA money on demolishing the same houses. But it turned out to be much worse than that. Karen discovered that many NOAH houses hadn’t been worked on at all. But someone was certainly collecting the money. […]
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