Housing Authority of New Orleans

[citation needed] Other projects like the Lafitte remained peaceful and with very little crime due to neighborhood watch groups.

[4] In 1986, crime statistics complied by NOPD showed that generally in three housing projects considered the most dangerous -Desire, St. Thomas, Fischer, had the less police response from 911 dispatch.

The death toll was more per capita than in the country's five largest cities; 99 of New Orleans' slayings were on public housing property.

Even in Chicago, with three times the number of public housing residents, the housing authority recorded half as many murders as New Orleans did in its developments[7] After Hurricane Katrina many of HANO's residents was forced to vacate their apartments due to water damage although many buildings sustained only minor damage.

Currently the department employs full-time commissioned police officers who are primarily responsible for providing protective services within and around the public housing developments.

In addition, these officers provide assistance to the New Orleans Police Department on a daily basis by answering calls for service in and around the developments.

The New Orleans city council voted unanimously on December 20, 2007, to allow HUD to destroy 4,500 units of low-income housing.

[11][12][13][14] No direct public housing racial statistics are available for the City of New Orleans however, racial data from HUD's Resident Characteristics Report,[15] as of December 31, 2013, indicate that of the 2,078 public housing units in Orleans Parish, 1,974 (95%) of the occupants are black, or about 1% of the Parish's overall black population of 206,985 (60.2%).