Verite: New Orleans got $388 million in federal pandemic aid. Was that money well spent?
CBNO Executive Director Nellie Catzen was interviewed on the community’s perspectives on New Orleans’ ARPA Allocations.
“Despite the many wins, which Catzen happily acknowledges, she still thinks that the city didn’t do enough to involve residents in decision-making and address their fundamental needs.
‘We had an opportunity to really flip that script and say in response to the major desperation that Black and brown people and working people were facing that we are going to invest in equity and choose to put our money towards lessening that disparity,’ Catzen said. ‘They had the mandate in the federal policy to do that, and they had the data behind that. And the fact that they really didn’t do that meaningfully is a real missed opportunity.’
Also covered by: Louisiana Illuminator
