To Supporters
We need your support in helping to provide affordable housing to hard-working Lower 9th 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 9th Ward of New Orleans.
The affordable housing project is now in grave danger. Our leadership in Baton Rouge is failing the Lower 9th 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 9th 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 9th 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 9th Ward families to have the decent housing they deserve.
This project is the ONLY affordable rental housing project in line for the Lower 9th 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 9th Ward families in New Orleans.
Updates
February 11, 2013
The Louisiana Housing Corporation has yet to provide a formal response regarding the funding for our project. We are continuing to communicate with their office to address their concerns about development costs. Your signatures provide the necessary leverage to keep this proposal at the forefront of their agenda.
February 11, 2013
The momentum behind this request for the Lower 9th Ward has reached a significant point. It is encouraging to see this level of interest in securing the future of the Holy Cross Project.
Reached 100 supporters
February 11, 2013
6 Comments
18 units is not even enough but it is a start. Get it done.
my family been in the lower 9th since before the storm and we are still struggling. please let this go through.
The 9th ward deserves better. Everyone keeps talking about progress but when it comes down to actual houses for people who live here they drag their feet.
Baton Rouge needs to do the right thing for once. Quit blocking stuff that actually helps the community!
so tired of seeing these empty lots. leave it to the state to make everything harder than it needs to be.
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To Supporters
We need your support in helping to provide affordable housing to hard-working Lower 9th 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 9th Ward of New Orleans.
The affordable housing project is now in grave danger. Our leadership in Baton Rouge is failing the Lower 9th 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 9th 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 9th 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 9th Ward families to have the decent housing they deserve.
This project is the ONLY affordable rental housing project in line for the Lower 9th 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 9th Ward families in New Orleans.
Updates
February 11, 2013
The Louisiana Housing Corporation has yet to provide a formal response regarding the funding for our project. We are continuing to communicate with their office to address their concerns about development costs. Your signatures provide the necessary leverage to keep this proposal at the forefront of their agenda.
February 11, 2013
The momentum behind this request for the Lower 9th Ward has reached a significant point. It is encouraging to see this level of interest in securing the future of the Holy Cross Project.
Reached 100 supporters
February 11, 2013
6 Comments
Ridiculous. We need these apartments and we need them now. Stop playing games with families lives in Baton Rouge.
18 units is not even enough but it is a start. Get it done.
my family been in the lower 9th since before the storm and we are still struggling. please let this go through.
The 9th ward deserves better. Everyone keeps talking about progress but when it comes down to actual houses for people who live here they drag their feet.
Baton Rouge needs to do the right thing for once. Quit blocking stuff that actually helps the community!
so tired of seeing these empty lots. leave it to the state to make everything harder than it needs to be.
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Ridiculous. We need these apartments and we need them now. Stop playing games with families lives in Baton Rouge.