Still not ok
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
I took this picture a week or so ago, it is a prime example of a failure to deal with blighted property in the city of New Orleans. There are people who are living next to this place that looks like it is about to fall down. As we approach the third anniversary of the storm and the subsequent Federal Flood, blight and abandoned houses are still the norm in the city. Our foot dragging government continues to be ineffective in dealing with the problem. There is a public safety issue here that was demonstrated last week when a seven year old child drowned in an unsecured swimming pool of an abandoned house in Eastern New Orleans. While our city leaders eat high on the hog on the taxpayers nickel, citizens are losing their lives and their quality of life to government neglect.
