Lafitte Projects

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The Lafitte Projects are one of the Housing Projects of New Orleans and are located in the 6th Ward. They are one of downtown New Orleans' oldest housing developments.

[edit] Reopening

Regarding public housing, Congress has demanded Department of Housing and Urban Development show solid plans for the housing developments or the new Democratic Party-controlled Congress will order the immediate restoration and reopening of all units that were occupied antediluvian (before the flood) on August 1, 2007. On March 21, 2007 the United States House of Representatives passed a bill blocking any demolishing of any housing development until H.U.D show solid plans for them and has informed H.U.D that they must contact all former residents of the city's four largest developments and inform those residents that they can return to the developments on August 1, 2007 and the buildings must be livable by October 2007.