Trigg
05-15-2007, 03:15 PM
This article really showes the difference between a community of mostly home owners versus mostly renters.
http://my.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20070515/46493040_3ca6_15526200705151344464358
Lakeview has lights and other utilities, but still has no firehouse and no public school.
But it is a community so fiercely independent it tried in the 1990s to secede from the city. And its residents - who include business executives and other professionals - have considerable organizational skills.
Lakeview's churches arranged for volunteers around the country to plant trees along Canal Boulevard, the main drag. And recently, nearly 1,000 original and potential new residents came to a civic association tutorial on how to navigate the city's bureaucracy and find a reputable contractor.
In fact, the civic association drew up a list of recommended contractors by running credit checks on them and consulting the Better Business Bureau.
Richard Campanella, associate director of Tulane and Xavier universities' Center for Biomedical Research, found that the flooding in Lakeview was, by some measures, far more severe. For example, nearly 22 percent of homes in Lakeview got more than 8 feet of water, compared with 3.5 percent in eastern New Orleans.
http://my.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20070515/46493040_3ca6_15526200705151344464358
Lakeview has lights and other utilities, but still has no firehouse and no public school.
But it is a community so fiercely independent it tried in the 1990s to secede from the city. And its residents - who include business executives and other professionals - have considerable organizational skills.
Lakeview's churches arranged for volunteers around the country to plant trees along Canal Boulevard, the main drag. And recently, nearly 1,000 original and potential new residents came to a civic association tutorial on how to navigate the city's bureaucracy and find a reputable contractor.
In fact, the civic association drew up a list of recommended contractors by running credit checks on them and consulting the Better Business Bureau.
Richard Campanella, associate director of Tulane and Xavier universities' Center for Biomedical Research, found that the flooding in Lakeview was, by some measures, far more severe. For example, nearly 22 percent of homes in Lakeview got more than 8 feet of water, compared with 3.5 percent in eastern New Orleans.