The right to adequate housing in disaster relief efforts 2011, para. 41
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- The destruction of much of the housing stock in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was also seen as an opportunity to fundamentally change the housing and urban characteristics of the city. Notably, the four largest public housing complexes in New Orleans (the "big 4"), mostly inhabited by African Americans, were demolished to give way to planned redevelopment of mixed-income communities and other uses. Although in some cases there may have been no feasible alternatives because of the severity of the damages, the demolitions were mainly justified as essential to the city's recovery and necessary for health and safety reasons. Problematically, the planned developments were to include a small number of public housing units compared to the total available before Hurricane Katrina. Their demolition was another obstacle preventing lower income residents from returning to New Orleans (see sect. III above).
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Environment
- Health
- Année
- 2011
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Reference
- SR Housing, Report to the UNGA (2011), A/66/270, para. 41.
- Paragraph number
- 41
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