New Orleans Area Habitat For Humanity

Musicians Village. GREAT concept and modest outcome. GOOD to know some musicians post Katrina are housed. Was at a jam session with resident and other NOLA.musicians. House was comfortable. IT is a little far off the beaten track.
A bus tour destination, oh please, people live here. Musicians and other creative persons, pay and see them perform, give em a brake –it is not a zoo with artist on exhibit.

I had a chance to visit Musician’s Village by Habitat for Humanity NOLA. I had a great bus tour guide who talked to us about the recovery effort. This place was one of the most hopeful sights out of the all recovery effort scenes we visited.
New Orleans’s 9^th Ward area had a great number of musicians living, and alot of them were gone, in many ways. We drove around the neighborhood that only had foundations of houses left and weed growing on top of them. Everything around there was washed away, the tour guide said.
keeping the music culture is very important to people in New Orleans, and building houses for the musicians to return and start living in NOLA was the idea of this project. Houses looked questionable, but the effort should be recognized.
The tour guide said 2 major good things came out of the storm. This village and pouring support from many people, and government and education system reform. The city was so rotten, it took Katrina to give the city better government and schools. They said that more than 5 officials left the office since the storm, 2 of them being the jail now.
I’ve met a few people who said they lost everything. I was crying about my cellphone that I left on the plane coming there. I felt ashamed.