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...Reed Kroloff, dean of the Tulane University school of architecture, urges caution to speculators, even locals. "It's foolhardy if they're buying up property in an area where the likelihood of them having a neighbor again is minimal," he argues. "New Orleans East has only 10% to 13% of its population because of power problems. Lakeview, the same. It will be very hard to regenerate their neighborhoods because so many people aren't coming back...
...Planning snafus haven't helped. One plan after another - by the Urban Land Institute, the mayor's Bring New Orleans Back commission, even New Urbanist architect Andres Duany's efforts - has fallen by the wayside in what Kroloff calls "the longest-playing comedy of errors." No one, including Nagin, has been willing to say clearly which neighborhoods shouldn't be rebuilt, or can't be provided city services. "The mayor so far has not demonstrated a willingness to make anyone unhappy," says John McIlwain, a senior fellow who worked on the ULI plan. Kroloff, who headed the failed BNOB planning...
...Kroloff is pushing for a plan to accelerate sales of derelict and abandoned properties - an effort Nagin started before Katrina, selling off older homes in the city's center to nonprofits. Now those derelict properties, many in Central City, are fueling the city's horrific murder rate as gangs use the abandoned housing. Kroloff's idea is to sell them for $1 if necessary, then cut people's taxes by 50% if they stay 10 years...
...builts, a modern-day version of the old Sears catalog home. KB Homes is already using similar technology, and why couldn't New Orleans, he wonders, attract modular homebuilders to churn out a new generation of affordable housing for the nation? The AFL-CIO investment fund in Washington, notes Kroloff, is looking to pour $1 billion into New Orleans...
...Developing high-rise living on the riverfront-mixed with single-family housing-means the population of pre-Katrina New Orleans could fit on about half the land it covers now, according to Tulane School of Architecture dean Reed Kroloff. He notes that Washington, D.C., quickly turned around its inner core by offering tax incentives and other inducements for people to return. Inner New Orleans is ripe for a similar rebirth: It has the highest number of blighted and derelict houses-over 30,000-that could bring homeowners and developers back to neighborhoods like Treme, a rundown version of Uptown...