Rebuilding Together New Orleans, an AVODAH placement organization, receives praise in The Atlantic
May 31st, 2011 |
Rebuilding Together New Orleans - an AVODAH placement organization for three years - received praise in a recent article in the Atlantic. The article, “Sustainable New Orleans: How Katrina Made a City Greener” was written by Kaid Benfield, the director of the Sustainable Communities and Smart Growth program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and co-founder of Smart Growth America. He writes, ”Another particularly impressive PRC program,Rebuilding Together New Orleans, is providing assistance at scale, helping low-income residents close the gap between usually inadequate government disaster assistance and the amount necessary to rebuild. The program has been rehabbing over a hundred homes each year, including 29 in the first three months of this year (plus three playgrounds).”
Read the full article at the The Atlantic here.
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