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Lay of the Land

This site allows you to browse, choose and explore rich layered multimedia stories about post-crisis urban equity and redevelopment.

DISPLACEMENT/HOME

When communities are redeveloped who stays and who goes?

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DISPLACEMENT/HOME

We Are Here: Stories of Displacement & Resistance

Gentrification
Eviction
San Francisco
Artist
Ellis Act
Real Estate
Activism

Out With the Old, In With the New

Gentrification
African-American businesses
Economic Displacement
Brooklyn

Culture Shock : Mixed-Income Housing

Public Housing
Mixed-Income Development
Chicago
New Orleans
Detroit
Affordable Housing
Cabrini Green
Gentrification

Sewing Home

Rebuilding
Culture
Mardi Gras Indians
Post-Katrina Displacement
Tourism

DEVASTATION/REBUILDING

How do you (re)build a community from the ground up?

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DEVASTATION/REBUILDING

Toward a Just New Orleans

New Orleans
Post-Katrina
Rebuilidng
Affordable Housing
Transit
Community Land Trust
Resilience

How Does One Begin...

Sunni Patterson
Culture
Post-Katrina New Orleans
Displacement
Rebuilding
Affordable Housing

Surviving the Spill : BP Oil Disaster

BP oil spill
Gulf Coast
Economic Displacement
Culture
Environment
Bridge the Gulf
Fishing Industry

COMMUNITY/COMMODITY

Who is invested in your community?

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COMMUNITY/COMMODITY

Bricks and Sticks: Public vs. Private

New Orleans
Public Housing
Mixed-Income
Privatization
Chicago
Detroit
Displacement
Resident Return

The Life and Death of Charity

New Orleans
Charity Hospital
Public Hospital
Health Care
Privatization
Post-Katrina

This Land is Our Land

Boston
Community Land Trust
Foreclosure
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Community Activism
DSNI
CLT

EXCLUSION/ENGAGEMENT

Who holds the power in your community?

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EXCLUSION/ENGAGEMENT

Youth Rising

Youth
Civic Engagement
Boston
Community Land Trust
Community Activism
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
New Orleans

Middle Passage

Marcus Akinlana
Culture
Community Activism
New Orleans
Rebuilding
African-American businesses
Art
Post-Katrina
Tourism

Your City. Your Money. You Decide.

Participatory Budgeting
New York City
New Orleans
Vallejo
Civic Engagement

Speaking Truth to Power

Public Housing
Youth
Chicago
Mixed-Income Development
Displacement
Cabrini Green
New Orleans
Affordable Housing
70 Acres in Chicago : Cabrini Green
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Sandy

Katrina

How can the next one be different?

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Storm

Aftermath

Recovery/Rebuilding

Future

SANDY

Share your vision for the future.

Katrina

In the years after Katrina, planners, experts and advocates clashed over the right to return to devastated neighborhoods.

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SANDY

Two renters left without heat or electricity battle cold weather and mold for months in Coney Island. 

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Katrina

A portrait of Jimmy, a life-long New Orleanian who refused to leave his beloved home and pets during and after Katrina.

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SANDY

Voices emerge from the aftermath of Sandy.

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Katrina

New Orleans filmmaker William Sabourin turned his camera on the chaos and community that he witnessed during Katrina and its aftermath.

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SANDY

Residents remember the night Hurricane Sandy made landfall. 

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Katrina

12-year old Tr'Vel Lyons recounts how he and his mother survived Katrina with the help of a guardian angel.

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SANDY

New Jersey homeowner Deborah Turner is caught in a tangle of red tape trying to rebuild after Sandy.

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Katrina

Al Aubry and his family adapt to life in FEMA trailer while waiting to rebuild their home.

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Buy The Film

Land of Opportunity is an important part of the New Orleans story. It gets down and dirty with the people on the ground. Five years in the making, Luisa’s film gives voice to everyday people working hard to rebuild their city and their lives. Anyone who cares about the future of cities in this country should see this movie! — Spike Lee

Katrinas are happening to every city in the nation. Land of Opportunity opens dialogue about the future of urban America and provides an opportunity to redefine disaster recovery from New York to Detroit to New Orleans. -Robert Greenwald, Filmmaker

Land of Opportunity is the best film available about the community-development challenges facing post-Katrina New Orleans.  But of course the real value of the film is that this process is not so unique after all. It is simply an exaggeration of the issues facing communities, residents and workers all across America. — Dr. Rob Olshansky, Author, "Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans” 

 

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Video Veracity, Inc.
3020 Royal St.
New Orleans, LA 70117

 

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