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To: LindyBill who wrote (145645)	11/3/2005 6:21:26 PM
From: Whitebeard	Respond to of 793914

I'm not surprised. I, too, would like to know the situation. Before this I'd read an article that one ward would be gentrified, but not the Ninth, but I may be confused as to wards. How will they gentrify it? Will NO lose its character? Was there a lot in the early 80's, and thought it was wonderful, but it was already spinning out of control. A lawyer friend who lived there was packing because there had been a shootout in the courthouse parking lot just a few months previous. I couldn't believe it at the time. An attorney taking a gun to court? Now you have to go through the metal detectors.

To: LindyBill who wrote (145645)	11/3/2005 8:24:44 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

Bill Quigley is a good, principled guy, even though he is a far left winger. But he's exaggerating for effect here and he knows it. The Ninth Ward will never be gentrified so long as the levees are not fixed and cannot withstand a cat. 4 or 5 storm, unless the gentry is of the lunatic variety. Plus, there are plenty of gentrified places that didn't flood. Why would anyone take such an absurd chance? Don't know why folks aren't being allowed in, but I suspect the slumlords are evicting for simple nonpayment of rent; they may want to rebuild and rent at higher rates. The new tenants are unlikely to be gentry but folks who are rebulding NO, perhaps lots of Hispanics.