Community Reporting Features

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The 2025-2026 cohort reported on housing

Evelynn Coffie 5/16/26 Evelynn Coffie 5/16/26

This Isn’t My New Orleans

A short documentary chronicles how housing instability, gentrification, and outside investment controls who belongs, who is protected, and who is pushed out of New Orleans.

Keva A. Peters, Jr. 5/16/26 Keva A. Peters, Jr. 5/16/26

Purple Heart

Purple Heart, named after the U.S. military medal given to wounded veterans, is short doc exploring how we define sacrifice, survival, and brotherhood through music and housing in New Orleans.

Drew Hawkins 5/16/26 Drew Hawkins 5/16/26

‘Culture is the New Cotton’: The failed promises of the Musicians’ Village

New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity built the Musicians’ Village to bring back the city’s musicians and culture bearers after Katrina. But when the nonprofit sold the apartments and rents spiked, musicians were left to weather the crisis on their own.

Lemar Arceneaux 5/15/26 Lemar Arceneaux 5/15/26

Available

As Louisiana leads the nation in population loss, this photo series proposes that the modern housing system in New Orleans is less about habitation and more about circulation.

Kyle Fulton 5/15/26 Kyle Fulton 5/15/26

The Erosion of Third Spaces

Photographing—and preserving—our homes away from home, from church pews to a warehouse-turned-gallery

Lauryn Hinton 5/15/26 Lauryn Hinton 5/15/26

Community Land Trusts Help New Orleans Residents Build Permanently Affordable Housing

As New Orleans grapples with a layered housing crisis, advocates say the CLT model offers a pathway to stable housing outside the volatility of the housing market.