RCHI Case Study: Village de L’Est in New Orleans

The Village de L’Est in New Orleans illuminates another important dimension of what affordable housing can afford by demonstrating how local institutions can develop community capacity and support housing for resilient cities in the context of post-disaster reconstruction. Village de L’Est is a neighborhood in Orleans Parish that is located in the southern part of an area of drained marshland bounded by Lake Pontchartrain and Chef Menteur Highway. The construction of the neighborhood on drained marshland has contributed to subsidence problems over the years. The neighborhood is one of two in New Orleans East, a large-scale development mostly consisting of suburban subdivisions that was built in the 1960s and considered to be the largest land parcel in the corporate limits of a major U.S. city held by a single owner (Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, 2002). Village de L’Est opened in 1964 as a 600-acre tract of single-family houses and two-family houses. For detailed case study

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