When I was working on a criminal justice project in New Orleans in 2006, there were still houses on top of cars. And this was one year after Hurricane Katrina…
Last month Sean and Carolina show us around their neighborhood in the Marigny, where restored shotgun houses and abandoned shells sit side-by-side and a mardi gras store doubles as a local grocery. The population is over 330,000 and counting, blighted houses are down to one-third, and a new mayor, Mitch Landrieu, was just elected by a landslide. Things are definitely on the up and up and here’s to exciting new times for a city that someone once told me “has more heart than a shitload of hearts.”
