Updates

Spring 2023 Reading Group

DSA New Orleans Political Education Working Group is proud to host a Spring 2023 reading series features authors that are part of the New Orleans landscape!

Join us as we delve into our city’s past in order to better change the future.

These will be hybrid meetings, both in person  at Parish Hall (2533 Columbus St) and online via Zoom, from 7:00 to 8:30 PM. We will have food and drinks available.

July 20th:

We will discuss Chapter 14, 15, 17, 18 and 20 from Campanella’s The West Bank of Greater New Orleans.

Please check back on this page periodically as it will be continuously updated!

Jane Place Fights Mounting Housing Crisis

$100 late rent fees. Evictions without warning. Refusing to fix collapsed ceilings.

These are merely a few of the myriad abuses New Orleans DSA member Breonne D. has seen in her time as an organizer with Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative.

For over 10 years, Jane Place has fought the deluge of gentrification, rent hikes, and landlord abuse in one of the most hostile regulatory environments in the nation. Their goal: decommodification of housing. Their method: community land trusts and expanded housing rights.

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