Displaced by Eviction

At the root of the eviction crisis in New Orleans is the embedded relationship between race and property. The establishment of the state's residential lease law in 1825 occurred during the Antebellum period—on the eve of New Orleans becoming the country's largest slave-trading market in the county. The state's residential lease law has remained mostly unchanged for nearly two hundred years, with only small piecemeal amendments.


City ordinances during the nineteenth century frequently mandated policies of residential confinement, surveillance, and architecture violence—regulating the spatial and geographic interactions of enslaved people and free persons of color to white residents. Post-emancipation housing regulations in the City shifted from residential confinement to Jim and Jane Crow policies of deed restrictions—the restrictive transfer and sale of property on a single parcel of land—and racially restrictive covenants and zoning policies by the early twentieth century, which prohibited anyone not considered 'white' from purchasing a home or land or residing in a particular neighborhood.


The discriminatory practices of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation's (HOLC) Residential Security Maps or redlining maps, the Federal Housing Administration's underwriting practices, along with the U.S. Housing Authority’s funding guidelines, the Veterans Administration's G.I. Bill, exploitative predatory inclusion practices, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) divestment in public housing, systemically displaced communities of color from their homes, destabilized neighborhoods, and prevented wealth building in homeownership and affordability housing opportunities. Post-Hurricane Katrina, discriminatory recovery policies and actions by government officials to use the storm as a blank slate opportunity to change the demographics of the city exacerbated racial disparities in housing access and affordability, thus contributing to the City's decades long housing crisis. 


The current crisis is a continuum of violent housing policies established during racial slavery—from slave ships, auction blocks, plantation arrangements, confined compounds, Black codes, and sharecropping—to residential segregation, urban divestment, racial wealth gap, skewed life chances, ongoing displacement, criminalization, and carceral confinement.

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA  - Six images


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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA  - Six images


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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Eviction of Genni Shelling, September 2020

1604 Simon Bolivar Blvd., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA -  Eight images


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA -  Eight images


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020-21

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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


Photo: Shana M. griffin, 2020

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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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Family Evicted, November 2020

2932 Cleveland Ave., New Orleans, LA


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