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34 Fordham Urb. L.J. 689 (2007)
The Houses that Eminent Domain and Housing Tax Credits Built: Imagining a Better New Orleans

handle is hein.journals/frdurb34 and id is 701 raw text is: THE HOUSES THAT EMINENT DOMAIN AND HOUSING TAX CREDITS BUILT: IMAGINING A BETTER NEW ORLEANS Carol Necole Brown* and Serena M. Williams** Throughout its history, New Orleans has been largely immune to bril- liant and innovative ideas. Indeed, this is one of its principal charms. If you are not a native New Orleanian, ask yourself why you decided to live here and chances are it has something to do with what Ignatius J. Reilly described as New Orleans' stagnation and apathy which I find inoffensive. ' Still, she longs for the Quarter-lights, riverboats churning, the tinkle of ice in a slim bar glass. Each night a refrain, its plain blue notes carrying her, slightly swaying, home.2 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ........................................... 690 II. A History of the New Orleans Rental Housing M arket ................................................. 692 III. Eminent Domain as Part of a Rebuilding Strategy .... 697 IV. The Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program ....... 706 A. How the Program Works .......................... 707 * Associate Professor of Law, The University of Alabama School of Law. A.B., Duke, 1991; J.D., Duke, 1995; LL.M., Duke, 1995. I would like to thank Florence Wagman Roisman, Judith Welch Wegner, and the Working Group on Property, Citi- zenship, and Social Entrepreneurism (PCSE) for their helpful comments. Thank you to Penny Gibson and Creighton Miller with the University of Alabama School of Law library for their excellent research support and other assistance. I also owe spe- cial thanks to Patty Lovelady Nelson for her valuable time and editorial support. I especially thank my parents, Allen S. Brown, Jr. and Valerie J. Brown for their support. ** Professor of Law and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Widener University School of Law, Delaware Campus. B.A., Smith College, J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., George Washington University School of Law. I would also like to thank the PCSE Working Group for its helpful comments. 1. R. Judson Mitchell, The Wild Gas: Rebuilding New Orleans, SOCIAL POLICY (2005-2006), available at http://www.socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=1640. 2. NATASHA TRETHEWEY, Expectant, in DOMESTIC WORK: POEMS BY NATASHA TRETHEWEY 17 (2000).

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