Providence Community Housing
Providence Community Housing, the Catholic post-Katrina initiative, was formed when a number of local church and community based organizations came together to see how they might use their joint talents, experience and resources to help address the critical need for affordable and supportive housing in southern Louisiana. Since 1727, we have served the poorest and most vulnerable of the Greater New Orleans area. With this legacy in mind, we committed ourselves to doing all that we could to allow people of all races, cultures, faiths and backgrounds to return to their homes, churches and communities.
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St. Peter Claver Church - www.spclaverchurch.org
St. Peter Claver Church and School maintain its position as a leader in the Archdiocese and city of New Orleans. Presently the parish boasts about 2500 registered families. It is the largest African-American Catholic Church in Louisiana. The church offers an array of ministries to the community.
Learn more about the rich history of St. Peter Claver Church in the Treme…
People's Environmental Center
The People's Environmental Center (PEC) addresses environmental health and justice issues exposed by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. By giving people direct access to information about environmental conditions, PEC helps people make informed decisions as they rebuild and re-establish their lives.
Contact People's Environmental Center.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professors and students have helped enormously with community organization and to create economic development strategies.
Consumer Credit Counseling Services
Consumer Credit Counseling Services offers homebuyer education courses and credit counseling.
Neighborhood Development Foundation
Offers homebuyer education courses and credit counseling.
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Wentworth Institute of Technology's Faculty and students, working in collaboration with the Ujamaa CDC, have been studying a block in the Treme neighborhood known as Ujamaa Square. During a community design charrette ledby Wentworth Architecture and Ujamaa in March 2006, residents requested neighborhood-based facilities for environmental health and childcare. Back at Wentworth, nearly 170 second-year architecture students developed site concepts for the square, considered strategies to remediate the landscape and prepared schemes for environmental and childcare centers. Several of these were selected in consultation with Ujamaa and the newly created People¹s Environmental Center, and have since been developed further in a fourth-year architectural studio. The schemes will be presented in the fall to various constituents in New Orleans. Parallel to these design efforts, Wentworth students have cleaned the site and gutted a building on the block. Plans are underway to have teams return to New Orleans in early 2007 to begin construction of a demonstration garden, which will teach residents how to remediate their homes and yards in the aftermath of the contaminants brought by Hurricane Katrina¹s floodwaters.
Tulane School of Architecture & UrbanBUILD
Tulane School of Architecture
Urban Build
Neighborhood Planning Network
Neighborhood Planning Network is engaged in an active dialogue regarding community issues as well as hosting weekly neighborhood planning meetings.