GRIT on the Gulf Live at Noon: Rebuilding New Orleans

GRITtv will stream live today at noon as our week of special programming on post-Katrina New Orleans and the Gulf Coast continues. Today we discuss the rebuilding of New Orleans and the public housing crisis. Since the hurricane thousands of public housing units in buildings minimally damaged have been destroyed. Homelessness has doubled and new development is in the form of high-end hotels and condominiums.

Here to discuss the issues surrounding the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast are Judith Browne-Dianis, Executive Director of Advancement Project, Rob Robinson, Housing Campaign Organizer for Picture the Homeless, Dr. John Derek Norvell, a Human Rights specialist with the NYS Division of Human Rights and Coalition of Concerned Citizens of Harlem, and on the phone public housing tenant and activist, Sam Jackson of May Day New Orleans. And you!

As goes New Orleans, so goes the nation. How does the destruction of public housing affect all of us? Write to laura@grittv.org or post your comments and questions right here. Tomorrow’s noon panel will also stream live and we’ll be taking your phone calls and comments. Stay tuned.