Nearly half (48.2 percent) said they can't afford to pay what's being required of them to cover their share of their community's storm-related insurance costs, and more than two thirds (68.3 percent) said the increases are causing them or their neighbors to consider selling their property and leaving the state.
The lack of affordable housing is strangling our community," said law professor William Quigley, director of the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University. "How do you have food, music, culture? How do you have hospitals, schools and drugstores? Every one of our institutions is built on working class people who historically have been underpaid, but one of the excuses for underpaying people has been that New Orleans was a relatively low-cost place to live. It's not anymore.
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