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• Protesters Storm New Orleans Housing AuthorityOffice

  About two dozen protesters temporarily seized control of the offices of the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) on Aug.

• NO. 5 • NEW ORLEANS: Doing the Second-Line Boogie

  New Orleans’ famous brass band-led jazz funerals were often followed by what was known as a “second line” of revelers who joined the procession to boogie to the music.

• Carpet Cottages the Latest in Low-RiseHousing

  he design for the cluster of small houses, with their pitched roofs and clapboard siding, looks like something from another era of New Orleans architecture, but the plan for these “Carpet Cottages” is brand new.

• Energizing New Orleans

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• Nothing Easy About Rebuilding New Orleans

  Robert Greer has been through more than a year of frustration, and it’s not over yet.

• Backfill: Sign Language From the Streets of New Orleans

  Sign language in New Orleans

• After Katrina: One Year Later

  A year after Katrina: voices and impressions from a region rethinking how to build

• Breakline: Rising Coastal Waters

  Rising Coastal Waters - Green Building Gains Ground in Gulf

• NEWS, TRENDS, & PEOPLE

  New Orleans—Multifamily property owners here have been stunned by increases in property insurance premiums of about 500 percent this spring.

• The $87 billion question

  New Orleans — Bridget Vinson describes her company’s property managers as the stars who have helped her recover after Hurricane Katrina swamped this city in 2005.