To Supporters

We need your support in helping to provide affordable housing to hard-working Lower 9^th Ward families in New Orleans. Join us in urging the Louisiana Housing Corporation (LHC) to approve the 18-unit affordable apartment building that we are building as part of our Holy Cross Project in the Lower 9^th Ward of New Orleans.

The affordable housing project is now in grave danger. Our leadership in Baton Rouge is failing the Lower 9^th Ward in withholding approvals to release funding that has been lined up for three years. We have learned that staff of the LHC and commissioners are not likely to support the project due to per unit costs ­­– even though the project was already approved and the estimated costs have since come down. If the LHC does not pass the resolution for the 18-unit apartments, they will kill this project and deny to Lower 9^th Ward families the decent housing they deserve.

Letter to Don J. Hutchinson, Executive Director of the Louisiana Housing Corporation (LHC) 

I am urging you to support Global Green USA’s 18-unit affordable apartment building planned for the final phase of their Holy Cross Project in the Lower 9^th Ward of New Orleans. The project was already approved years ago, after Global Green USA came to New Orleans with plans to help the city rebuild green following Hurricane Katrina. We urge you to pass the resolution for the 18-unit apartments and allow hard-working Lower 9^th Ward families to have the decent housing they deserve.

This project is the ONLY affordable rental housing project in line for the Lower 9^th Ward and Global Green USA’s plan is to build healthy sustainable housing units that are resilient and able to withstand future storms. This will be a demonstration project that will be seen by thousands from around the world – a project to demonstrate how we can build sustainable, storm-resilient housing in our current climate crisis.

The project will use solar power and environmentally-friendly materials that will improve indoor air quality and decrease illness from upper respiratory diseases such as asthma. The estimated 80% energy savings from solar power will go directly to residents, who will pay drastically lower energy bills.

The project was originally approved by the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency when the per unit cost was over $500,000. Now that cost has been cut to $333,000 per unit ­­– a 35% savings ­– there is no reason why this project should not be approved.

I urge you to support this project and help Global Green USA provide affordable housing to hard-working Lower 9^th Ward families in New Orleans.

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