Road home new orleans program

This became Exhibit A of our lawsuit. Unknown to us, the Road Home Program would lose the record of our registration, and we were never contacted or informed of rules that were later established that made us eligible to be compensated for our Katrina losses. By the time we realized what had happened, we had missed a deadline to apply.

Senator Mary Landrieu then informed us that we could appeal for an exemption to that deadline, and she wrote to the appropriate state agency on our behalf. Nevertheless, that agency would not honor our request. For their negligence, we sued the agencies responsible for carrying out the Road Home Program in Federal Court. Our complaint and all ensuing motions, memoranda and exhibits listed on the Docket can be accessed from this Web page. In the end, the Court ruled that the above agencies, acting on behalf of the state, had immunity for their actions, even if they were negligent or in error.

We are still living in the same small apartment that we were fortunate enough to find in Shreveport after evacuating New Orleans, where we had lived for 30 years prior to the storm. Details of our evacuation can be found here. Hornsby of the U. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, who ruled that the state agencies were indeed entitled to sovereign immunity for their actions Docket Items No. Louisiana's government was thus reassured of its immunity from suit for the deprivations of its citizens caused by the negligence, ineptitude or animus of its agents.

It should be noted that the doctrine of sovereign immunity is not derived from any law of the land or federal statute, but was created from whole cloth through judicial dicta, and reinforced by its repeated usage in the courts. Despite the absence of any constitutional basis that prevents citizens from suing their own state agencies, judges have endowed themselves with arbitrary discretion in the assignment of sovereign immunity, and they exercise wide latitude in its application.

Each tax would replace an existing Orleans Parish voters will decide in November whether to renew two property taxes that expire at the end of the year — one for the public library system and another for affordable housing and blight initiatives. It appears likely This was The voters in Orleans Parish spoke quite clearly Saturday when they rejected three millage proposals that Mayor LaToya Cantrell strongly pushed. There were plenty of complaints In Orleans Parish, multiple property tax measures were on the Dec.

The plan would have cut roughly The first deals with funding infrastructure and These propositions focus on infrastructure, housing and economic development, and early childhood education. There are three parish-wide millage propositions on the ballot for Orleans Parish residents this weekend.

One has to do with maintenance and infrastructure, another has to do with library funding and early childhood education. A third has to do New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell threatened to lay off city employees unless voters extend three property taxes Saturday.

In Orleans Parish, multiple property tax measures are on the Dec. Proposition 1 funds infrastructure, including roadwork. A yes vote for Proposition 1 would replace two existing property taxes with a new special tax.

The existing millage Proposition One is a renewal of a infrastructure and maintenance fund tax. Proposition Two is a restructured library tax which would Gabriel Morley, the director of the New Orleans Public Library, said at a Wednesday morning press conference that he had seen no written plan for how the library would adjust to a 40 percent budget cut being proposed There are three propositions the city is asking voters to renew. Newell talks to Research Director Stephen Stuart about what voters will see on their ballots in the Dec 5 election.

The discussion focuses on the New Orleans property tax propositions on the ballot. In recent weeks, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has ramped up her campaign to convince voters to approve a plan to reallocate millions of dollars in property taxes, which will appear as three separate ballot propositions on the Dec New Orleans voters will be asked to reconfigure five soon-to-expire taxes into four new ones on the Dec.

The first would increase a combined streets and The diverse group of parents, librarians and concerned citizens that make up the Save Our Libraries coalition got a boost this week when the Bureau of Governmental Research added their voice to those opposing Proposition 2 which is on BGR said the In a report released Monday, the Bureau of Governmental Research, a local nonpartisan think tank, came out against a package of proposed property tax changes backed by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell.

The report is intended to help New Orleans voters make an informed decision on three separate propositions to replace several City We also are grateful to the Louisiana Recovery Authority for providing access to a considerable amount of data from the Road Home Program. All analyses and opinions expressed in this paper are our own. Urban and Regional Planning. Overview Fingerprint. Abstract The flooding in New Orleans that followed Hurricanes Katrina and Rita damaged hundreds of thousands of homes.

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