Shannon Rainey, longtime Gordon Plaza resident, shares how she learned about the affordable housing project at Gordon Plaza in the 1980s when she worked for the mayor's office.

ID: 5390 ~ Source: Video courtesy of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans. ~ Creator: Oral history interview with Shannon Rainey conducted by Lones Gagnard, Vickie Lacoste, Ella McIntire, and Daniel Lamplugh. ~ Date: February 2019.

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Constructing Gordon Plaza

By Kathryn O'Dwyer, Shelby Loyacano & Elizabeth Williams

In the 1970s, under the administrations of Mayors “Moon” Landrieu and his successor “Dutch” Morial, the city planned and built housing for elderly and low-income families on the former site of…