‘It’s a Nightmare’: New Orleans Built Homes on a Toxic Landfill and Encouraged Black Residents to Move There. Now Officials Refuse to Move Them or Pay Damages.
Nearly three decades after learning their neighborhood was built on contaminated soil, government officials have not fully compensated or relocated a group of Black families for the inequity. New Orleans built the 67 houses atop a former garbage landfill after promoting the area as a chance for low-income homeownership for African-Americans in the late 1970s…
