"We chose to go forward with a market-driven recovery effort," Mr. Nagin said. "I believe citizens can make intelligent decisions about where to live. It is my position that government investment will follow citizen investment."
In practice, this means, as Mr. Nagin put it, that "for the most part the redevelopment of our city is going to be done by our citizens." With more than half the city's pre-hurricane population still elsewhere, including many of its poorest citizens, early indications are that it is mostly those with some resources who have been able to move back.
[Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/us/politics/13orleans.html]
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Is Nagin really Tim Gunn in disguise?
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