Affordable Green Housing For Flood-prone Regions

Way down yonder in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, a few blocks east of the Industrial Canal that links the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain and the Gulf of Mexico, something wonderful happened yesterday. Where multiple breaches along the levees of the Industrial Canal and the Intracoastal Waterway resulted in devastating flooding and damage in the Lower Ninth Ward and New Orleans East from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a public unveiling, ribbon cutting ceremony and celebration of another completed house in New Orleans. But Sugar, this ain’t no ordinary house ………… (more…)