Thursday, January 31, 2008
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has approved MS Governor Haley Barbour’s plan to divert $600 of Federal Community Development Block Grant funds from low-income housing recovery to a Port Expansion Plan in Gulfport.
In his letter to Gov. Haley Barbour, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that although he’s concerned about using the housing money […]
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Friday, November 16, 2007
What’s the headline refer to? Hurricane Katrina’s deforestation of the Gulf Coast, primarily Mississippi.
New satellite imaging has revealed that hurricanes Katrina and Rita produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in the nation — an essentially unreported ecological catastrophe that killed or severely damaged about 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana.
The die-off, […]
By Briley Richmond
Ocean Springs, MS
Sunday, October 21, 2007
The Mississippi Press
A 6-year-old child, Blake Pendergrass, was struck and killed by an automobile in Escatawpa the other day. Escatawpa is about 20 miles from my home in Ocean Springs. I didn’t know him. I would imagine something like that happens somewhere in America every day — at […]
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
I posted previously on MS Governor Haley Barbour’s support for the plan divert federal Community Development Block Grant funds to a port expansion in Gulfport.
The following is section III of the comment to the MS Development Authority and HUD, by Gulf Coast and national advocacy groups:
MISSISSIPPI HAS FAILED TO ADDRESS THE HOUSING CRISIS
ESPECIALLY THE DIRE […]
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Facing South reports on the latest development in Mississippi’s road to non-recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
A Mississippi agency wants to divert $600 million in federal funds from a housing program created to help low-income homeowners who suffered losses in Hurricane Katrina and use it to spruce up the State Port at Gulfport, the Associated Press reports.
The […]
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
That’s how my friend Derrick Evans refers to Hurricane Katrina these days. Here’s Trisha Miller to explain a little of what he means by that.
The promise of renewal is fading with each passing anniversary. As a nation, we must lend a voice and a hand to help end the suffering among families who survived the […]
The second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is tomorrow, and for many thousands, the situation is still dire, and things are not getting any better. One can of kidney beans per day and some rice does not a healthy 65-year-old woman make.
BAY ST. LOUIS, MS - If she had known Aug. 28, 2005, what she […]
“They quickly fast-tracked legislation to allow the casinos to be rebuilt on land so that the casino companies and operators wouldn’t abandon the Gulf Coast. An opportunity was missed to also require those folks, when they rebuild, to pay into an affordable housing trust fund, like the hotels do in Boston.”
—Derek Evans, Executive Director, […]
Really, he said that. Article at the link says more than 25,000 FEMA trailers are still in service in Mississippi.
Judge give me life this mornin’ down on Parchman Farm (2x)
I wouldn’t hate it so bad, but I left my wife in mourn
Oh, goodbye wife, all you have done gone (2x)
But I hope some day, you […]
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Click on the link to view a brief local TV news spot on last weekend’s International Women’s Day event in East Biloxi, MS.
International Women’s Day Debut In Biloxi (Windows Media Player)
The report is a nice snapshot of community activity on the Gulf Coast, which still struggles tremendously from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and ongoing […]
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The following report from the Mississippi Gulf Coast is by Derrick Evans, founder and director of Turkey Creek Community Initiatives. —BG
By Derrick Evans
Turkey Creek Community Initiatives and its community partners are trying to get MLK Blvd and the rest of North Gulfport EXTREMELY clean in time for Dr. King’s Birthday on Jan 15, as well […]
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Now that I’ve got the blog going on Gulf Coast Fair Housing Network, I’ve added the RSS feed to the sidebar. You should see it there right at the top. It displays links to the three most recent posts.
For more info on GCFHN, see my earlier Hungry Blues post, or just go straight to the […]
Saturday, January 6, 2007
This segment from a Mississippi Public Broadcasting series on the post-Katrina Gulf Coast of MS was made in March 2006, two months after the week that I spent there. The video is of a helicopter fly over of the MS Gulf Coast. It is impossible to understand the extent of the damage in Mississippi without […]
Saturday, January 6, 2007
When I read Bill Quigley’s article about HUD’s approval of plans to demolish thousands of livable public housing apartments in New Orleans, one sentence in particular jumped out at me:
Representatives Barney Frank and Maxine Waters chair the committee and subcommittee with oversight of HUD.
Being from Massachusetts, it struck me that Massachusetts residents represented by Barney […]
Impact On Mississippi Overlooked
The one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina brought the focus back to New Orleans, but Gulf Coast communities in Mississippi still struggle to get attention and help for areas swept away by last summer's deadly super storm.
"We have been so overshadowed. In Mississippi, we have total […]
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