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30 Search Results Found For: "orleans blight"

  • Questions for a New Mayor: New Orleans 2010 Election

    Overview With the primary on the way, BGR submitted questions to all mayoral candidates on topics in four areas: the city’s budget, city services, infrastructure and blight. Four candidates – Rob
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  • Open Letters: Future of N.O.’s Blight Programs

    Overview BGR has been conducting extensive research on blighted property issues and blight remediation programs in New Orleans and is preparing a study for future publication. Drawing on that research
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  • Cantrell administration should boost transparency on $388 million in federal funds, BGR says

    When the New Orleans City Council passed a massive, $262 million amendment to the 2023 budget in the waning hours before a Dec. 1 deadline, local activists were surprised. There’d been no formal not
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  • Unclear future for city-led affordable housing as tax is set to expire

    A local property tax dedicated to affordable housing and blight reduction is set to expire at the end of the year, after a majority of New Orleans voters rejected a ballot proposition to renew it earl
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  • Voters approve renewal of library tax, but reject housing tax renewal

    New Orleans voters approved a ballot measure to fund the Public Library system on Saturday, but a second tax proposition — to pay for an affordable housing and blight elimination fund — was narrow
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  • High stakes in library and housing tax renewal votes on Saturday, proponents say

    New Orleans residents will head to the polls on Saturday to decide whether to renew two existing property taxes that expire at the end of the year — one that brings in roughly $10 million per year f
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  • BGR comes out in support of library property tax, against housing tax on Dec. 11 ballot

    The nonpartisan think tank the Bureau of Governmental Research released a new report on Monday with a split decision on the two property tax renewals that New Orleans voters will decide on during the
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  • BGR Analyzes St. Tammany Parish Sales Tax Proposition

    NEW ORLEANS — From the Bureau of Governmental Research: BGR has released a new report titled “On the Ballot: St. Tammany Parish Sales Tax, Nov. 13, 2021.” The report is intended to help voters i
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  • Council puts library and housing property tax renewals on the November ballot

    Orleans Parish voters will decide in November whether to renew two property taxes that expire at the end of the year — one for the public library system and another for affordable housing and blight
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  • Council advances controversial library board appointment, announces ballot initiative to renew library tax

    The New Orleans City Council Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday voted to advance the nomination of Dana Henry to the New Orleans Public Library Board of Directors, despite significant oppositi
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