{"id":99579,"date":"2022-03-07T15:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=99579"},"modified":"2022-03-07T16:48:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T22:48:47","slug":"new-orleans-creates-plan-for-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/new-orleans-creates-plan-for-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans creates plan for affordable housing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"99579\" class=\"elementor elementor-99579\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1c79954a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1c79954a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4f70fc03\" data-id=\"4f70fc03\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a87f96 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a87f96\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>By MacKenzie Coffman<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p><p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/df6d92ab8daed969431300d2c50159a8\/new-orleans-city-map\/index.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\"><\/iframe><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A brand new three-bedroom house stood for sale in the little New Orleans neighborhood of Freret. Yet, at an asking price of $599,000, this home carried a price tag 169% more expensive than the median home cost in the city. It mirrors an issue familiar in New Orleans and cities across the country where dwindling affordable housing both reflects and amplifies rapid gentrification.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are slowly chipping away at the systemic bias that makes this kind of reform almost impossible,\u201d said Andreanecia Morris, the executive director of HousingNOLA. The organization was formed by New Orleans citizens groups to partner the communities, investors and other organizations in identifying and building affordable housing. \u201cWe are showing people that there is a path; there&#8217;s a logical, sensible and practical path that can do this.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morris blueprinted this path in Housing NOLA\u2019s new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fluxconsole.com\/files\/item\/87\/133762\/2022%20Housing%20For%20All%20Action%20Plan%2002-19-22%20FINAL.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Housing for All plan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, released Feb. 21, which asked for $37 billion in investments to end the city\u2019s affordable housing crisis. The plan outlines four priorities: decreasing the housing affordability gap, closing the racial wealth gap, boosting housing stock resilience and combatting displacement. To do this, Morris said, the entire community will need to fight together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEverybody&#8217;s getting beat on. We\u2019ve got to turn to fight; we\u2019ve got to stop blocking blows. And at the end of the day, this city has a fighting chance because of the work that we are doing. It didn&#8217;t before,\u201d Morris said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like the new constructions at skyrocketing prices and house-flips by speculators who never lived in the home, organizations fighting to make housing affordable and prevent displacement are also growing across New Orleans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center, a civil rights nonprofit that focuses on housing discrimination cases and creating policy to protect renters and homeowners, has been a part of this fight for 27 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December, the organization helped approve $2 million in city budget funding for a right to counsel and eviction court program in response to the pandemic-triggered evictions that left people with nowhere to go. Initially, the city had promised just a quarter of that funding for the program, and when Maxwell Ciardullo, the director of policy and communications, found out the full budget had been approved, he said he was in disbelief.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe told everyone to stay home and to keep everyone safe, and then we couldn&#8217;t figure out how to make sure everyone could stay in their home,\u201d Ciardullo said. \u201cSo it felt really good to, at the very least, make sure everyone has an attorney.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the city also passed a law mandating that homeowners cannot rent out their property on sites such as Airbnb unless it is the only house they own. Such an ordinance will benefit the gentrifying Trem\u00e9-Lafitte neighborhood especially. Michelle Shoriak, who runs the revival grants program at the Preservation Resource Center, used to live in Treme and saw the housing issue firsthand.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople were just buying up houses and renting them out. I lived in Treme for a little while, and myself and our next-door neighbor were the only people that actually lived on the block. Every house around us was an Airbnb,\u201d Shoriak said.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Morris, of Housing NOLA, said the city has been too focused on this particular issue. Short-term rental owners are not, as she put it, \u201cthe evilest evils that have ever eviled.\u201d Instead, she said with proper regulations, short-term rentals can fund more critical housing policies and projects, like building affordable housing and filling existing vacancies.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The city also passed a zoning ordinance in December granting construction of triplexes and fourplexes as long as one unit is affordable for renters making no more than 80% of the area median income, which is about $39,000 per individual. It also allows one unit to be used for short-term rentals. While such policy can take years to affect the community, this ordinance is an exception \u2014 one new development is already poised to break ground.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe&#8217;re not talking about simply passing a policy and checking a box on the progressive, social justice bingo card,\u201d Morris said. \u201cWhat I&#8217;m talking about is changing the lives of New Orleanians.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><em>MacKenzie Coffman is a video and broadcast graduate student at Medill. You can follow her on Twitter at @Mac_coffman.<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MacKenzie CoffmanMedill Reports A brand new three-bedroom house stood for sale in the little New Orleans neighborhood of Freret. 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