Complex issue: Kenner apartment ban angers affordable-housing advocates

New Orleans CityBusiness | April 12, 2008| | Copyright

A recently instated one-year moratorium on the construction of developments with five or more apartments in Kenner will not solve conflicts over post-Katrina growth facing the city and does not recognize the region's need for affordable housing, real estate industry insiders and fair housing advocates say.

The ban on new multifamily housing was unanimously approved April 3 by the Kenner City Council, less than a month after Kenner saw thousands of people line up outside its housing authority office to receive federal rental assistance vouchers.

The ban already puts in limbo at least two ...

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