9th Ward Florida Projects New Orleans

Between 1961 1964 hano construed two more housing projects for low income black families.

9th ward florida projects new orleans. Claude avenue experienced the city s most significant and longest standing flooding from the new orleans hurricane of 1915 due to a break in the protection levee at florida avenue. Staff photo by kathy anderson the times picayune. The ninth ward or 9th ward is a distinctive region of new orleans louisiana which is located in the easternmost downriver portion of the city it is geographically the largest of the 17 wards of new orleans on the south the ninth ward is bounded by the mississippi river on the western or upriver side the ninth ward is bounded by going from the river north to lake pontchartrain franklin. The lower ninth ward in new orleans after hurricane katrina caused the levees to fail and the city was flooded.

As a result the florida projects were entirely demolished later by the city. Https bit ly 2duusis follow newtral groundz. Downtown new orleans was once the home of the old st. The overall conditions of the projects were deplorable from the moment they were put into place in the later part of the 1950s.

Then the industrial canal was dredged through the neighborhood at the start of the 1920s. The florida projects were actually located right across the street from the desire projects and when hurricane katrina arrived in new orleans it significantly flooded the florida development. The area of the 9th ward on the back side of st. Families of the desire claimed that the new project was run down while the florida was nicely built in good condition.

Lower ninth ward is a neighborhood of the u s city of new orleans louisiana as the name implies it is part of the 9th ward of new orleans the lower ninth ward is often thought of as the entire area within new orleans downriver of the industrial canal. However the city planning commission divides this area into the lower ninth ward and holy cross neighborhoods.