Somebody Has to Say It: Government Efficiency Means “Poor People Pay the Price”, Guste Homes is the Latest Target

That is exactly what is happening now with the federal scrutiny of Guste High Rise. Officials are calling it responsible oversight. But to longtime residents of this city, it feels like the same playbook that has already stripped New Orleans of thousands of deeply affordable housing units. And now it is aimed squarely at the most vulnerable – poor, elderly residents who have the least ability to recover from displacement. Balancing budgets by destabilizing poor seniors is not reform. It is abandonment and disregard dressed up as policy.