Andreanecia Morris's guest appearances

Andreanecia Morris

Hudson Mohawk Magazine

Power Station

Elon Musk

Lee Harris

Bernie Sanders

Barbara Smith

James Howard Kunstler

Cory Booker

Bill Walsh

Ilhan Omar

Billy Carter

Jeff Bezos

Stephen Kinzer

Jason Brown

Nathaniel Smith

Will Harris

Jessica Bennett

OwlTail

Miriam Axel

Michele Maserjian for UpState Housing presents speakers, Miriam Axel Lute editor from ShelterForce magazine and Andreanecia Morris executive director of HousingNOLA from New Orleans, discussing the elephant in the room, what is going to happen when rent moratoriums and mortgage foreberance ends. This report was from a July 2020 webinar presented  by  Nonprofit Quarterly titled Housing Justice during Covid 19.

Miriam Axel - Lute and Andreanecia Morris on Housing Justice during Covid 19

Did you know that the Lower Ninth Ward had the highest rate of homeownership in New Orleans, pre-Hurricane Katrina? And that the devastation of those homes and displacement of their African American owners was caused by breeches in levees that are still in disrepair 15 years later? Or that tens of thousands of those owners remain displaced from their own city? Unlike most cities grappling with a housing crisis, there are 19,000 vacant units in New Orleans. The fact that landlords have withheld them from the rental market is just one of the factors that compelled dozens of affordable housing developers, homeless and housing advocates, and community residents to create Housing NOLA. Their mission is crystal-clear: to produce a data-based plan for meeting affordable housing needs in New Orleans over a 10-year period. It takes an uncommon leader to publish a yearly report card on such a plan’s progress and failings. Andreanecia Morris is the exceptional leader that Housing NOLA deserves. From her expertise in housing development and policy advocacy to her deep commitment to racial equity and justice, this is a story we all need to hear and follow.

<p>Did you know that the Lower Ninth Ward had the highest rate of homeownership in New Orleans, pre-Hurricane Katrina? And that the devastation of those homes and displacement of their African American owners was caused by breeches in levees that are still in disrepair 15 years later? Or that tens of thousands of those owners remain displaced from their own city? Unlike most cities grappling with a housing crisis, there are 19,000 vacant units in New Orleans. The fact that landlords have withheld them from the rental market is just one of the factors that compelled dozens of affordable housing developers, homeless and housing advocates, and community residents to create Housing NOLA. Their mission is crystal-clear: to produce a data-based plan for meeting affordable housing needs in New Orleans over a 10-year period. It takes an uncommon leader to publish a yearly report card on such a plan’s progress and failings. Andreanecia Morris is the exceptional leader that Housing NOLA deserves. From her expertise in housing development and policy advocacy to her deep commitment to racial equity and justice, this is a story we all need to hear and follow.</p>

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