| Pratt Institute will use its URAP-CD grant to provide community planning, design, and development expertise to support and bolster local efforts to rebuild low-income areas of New Orleans East (NOE). The project will help to plan and develop model blocks to catalyze the rebuilding of the entire neighborhood and to identify and assemble the resources and strategies necessary to accomplish that objective. Project activities include conducting outreach and providing support to displaced low-income residents, to engage them in resettling and rebuilding NOE; inspecting, cleaning, and preparing properties in targeted areas where a critical mass of engaged low-income residents live; and developing the NOE Community Database for Rebuilding, an integrated land use and rebuilding resource for the entire NOE neighborhood.
Project partners will produce environmentally sustainable development plans and strategies, and assemble resources to rebuild the target model blocks/clusters in low-income areas of NOE. Pratt Institute will be collaborating with a local partner, ACORN Housing Corporation.
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