Posts Tagged ‘Road Home’

Guest Commentary: The Dark Side of “Economic Development” in New Orleans

Guest Commentary: The Dark Side of “Economic Development” in New Orleans

The multi-billion dollar LSU and Veterans Affairs Hospitals project, seen by many as harmless economic development, has important implications for property rights and fiscal responsibility.

Commentary: Road Home Grant Money Going to Waste

The latest example of astonishing wasteful government spending in Post-Katrina New Orleans was described in a recent report by the Times-Picayune. In this example of progress impeded by bureaucratic incompetence, a study by a federal inspector general found that 80% of sampled recipients of Road Home elevation grants in 2006 and 2007 failed to use [...]