A nonprofit legal advocacy organization offers a proposal for how New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast region can be rebuilt in a sustainable and socially just way.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast region need to be rebuilt in a sustainable and socially just way. It will cost well over $100 billion in federal funds to rebuild the region. People of color and low income communities disproportionately bear the burdens of the Katrina disaster, and disproportionately stand to lose out on the benefits of recovery and relief.
The Center for Law in the Public Interest and Marc Brenman, Executive Director of the Washington State Human Rights Commission, present recommendations below to help ensure the fair distribution of the benefits and burdens of reconstruction, while promoting democratic values of full information and full and fair public participation in rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Thanks to Robert Garcia
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