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Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu issued the following statement on President Barack Obama’s announcement that current HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan will become the next director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will be nominated as the next HUD secretary

Today, Congressman Bill Cassidy announced he will be introducing legislation to protect faith-based institutions from unnecessary taxes. The Faith and Fairness Act of 2014 allows religious institutions to receive favorable tax status so they can provide housing for leaders of their communities. It upholds the position that the federal government has held for generations on whether such expenditures should be taxed.

Today the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act, H.R. 3370 was signed into law by President Barack Obama. With his signature, 5.5 million Americans including over 200,000 in Louisiana will begin to see relief from exorbitant premiums resulting from Biggert-Waters

Washington, DC - February 13, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Steve Scalise today announced an agreement between key players in the House, including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, to protect Louisiana homeowners from unaffordable Biggert-Waters rate hikes. The proposal will provide flood insurance relief and peace of mind for Louisianans. It will be brought up for a vote in the coming weeks

NEW ORLEANS, LA - January 30, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu urged citizens to remain vigilant and, if possible, stay off roadways and remain in their homes as a winter storm brings freezing, dangerous conditions to the New Orleans area. On Monday, the National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning for Orleans Parish and Mayor Landrieu declared a state of emergency

NEW ORLEANS - January 22, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA) announced the launch of NORA’s Façade RENEW Program, a grant program designed to incentivize commercial property and small business owners to revitalize storefronts and building façades in four targeted areas of the city.

NEW ORLEANS, LA - January 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- TOMORROW, Mayor Mitch Landrieu will join representatives from Stirling Properties and JCH Development and councilmembers to celebrate the start of construction on Magnolia Marketplace. The $24.4 million retail center will fill a retail gap in the heart of Central City along the Claiborne Avenue corridor and create more than 200 full-time jobs.

NEW ORLEANS - January 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Wells Fargo, NeighborWorks America® and Hope Enterprise Corporation today joined Mayor Mitch Landrieu to announce the New Orleans NeighborhoodLIFT® program, an initiative offering $5.15 million from Wells Fargo to boost homeownership and strengthen neighborhoods in the city’s low- and moderate-income areas. The NeighborhoodLIFT® program complements the city’s coordinated development strategy to bring investment into all areas of New Orleans.

WASHINGTON - December 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu today announced $5.4 million in FEMA Public Assistance Grants to replace water main segments in two New Orleans neighborhoods. Water mains in the two neighborhoods, Holy Cross and Lakeshore - Lake Vista, were damaged in Hurricane Katrina

WASHINGTON - November 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, at the request of Congressman Bill Cassidy, M.D. and members of the Congressional Home Protection Caucus, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on the National Flood Insurance Program. Dr. Cassidy released the following statement on the hearing

WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, today announced $5.6 million to reconstruct a residential building at the Alexander Milne Home for Women in St. Tammany Parish

WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today approved several disaster recovery plans throughout the State of Louisiana totaling $91.7 million to help local communities to recover from Hurricane Isaac in August of 2012. These disaster plans will rely on grants provided earlier this year through HUD’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program.

NEW ORLEANS, LA - October 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu was joined by HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), and City and State officials to commemorate the ground breaking of the redevelopment of the Iberville Housing Development and to launch the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI). Iberville was originally constructed in 1941 and is New Orleans’ last standing conventional public housing development

NEW ORLEANS, LA - October 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, along with Federal, state and local officials, will participate in a groundbreaking for the redevelopment of the Iberville Housing Development.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Justice Department today announced that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Housing Authority for the City of Ruston, La., has engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American tenants, in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act. The Ruston Housing Authority is a public housing authority that provides housing for persons of low income in Ruston. Currently, the Ruston Housing Authority owns and maintains five housing complexes in Ruston.