Top 10 Civil Liberties News Stories - August 30, 2006 Edition
By Tom Head, About.com Guide
NAACP Issues Report on Post-Katrina Housing Discrimination
A group of roofers work to restore a New Orleans home damaged during Hurricane Katrina.
Photo: Copyright (c) 2006 Katherine Canada. Used by permission.
Earlier this month, I described the "linguistic profiling" that black Hurricane Katrina survivors have faced. Now the NAACP has published a comprehensive report on New Orleans housing segregation. Most notable: Nobody seems to be in a hurry to rebuild low-income and subsidized housing, which seems to have had and will probably continue to have a "gentrifying" effect on the city's demographics.
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