Listen as Hill-Snowdon Foundation Program Officer Shona Chakravartty speaks with Tracie Washington, President of the Louisiana Justice Institute (LJI). Held February 1, 2008, their conversation raises several key points, including but not limited to the status of efforts opposing the demolition of public housing in New Orleans; common misperceptions of public housing residents in New Orleans; early findings from LJI’s survey of residents living in FEMA trailer parks; the shared struggles and collaborative actions of the working poor not only in New Orleans but across the nation; and the need for a sustained communications effort between grassroots communities facing chronic poverty.
