Residents at the Gentilly facility are having trouble accessing important personal belongings like IDs, Medicaid cards and cash cards, according to Council Member Lesli Harris.
But as people braced to move, confusion and anxiety spread Tuesday through homeless encampments like the one on Earhart Boulevard beneath the U.S. 90 overpass — the very site where the Landry administration relocated people after a set of similar sweeps before a Taylor Swift concert series last year.
Southern Louisiana from New Orleans to Baton Rouge to Lafayette was covered with historic snowfall Tuesday as Governor Jeff Landry announces closures.
The federal oversight agreement that hangs over the New Orleans Police Department is viewed acrimoniously by police officers, the city council and the state's leaders.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said the state is facing potential record snowfall that could close Mississippi River bridges from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
New transitional shelter for 200 unhoused people opens as the state clears camps near major New Orleans landmarks.
The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and President Donald Trump's plans to clamp down on illegal immigration.
Governor Jeff Landry’s $11 million plan to sweep homeless encampments and open a temporary Gentilly shelter sparks protests in New Orleans ahead of Super Bowl LIX.
The sweep comes after the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in favor of Gove. Jeff Landry, allowing him to implement his “Strategy on Homeless” on Monday, Jan. 13. The unhoused were asked to put all their possessions in a box that was transported to the new transitional center in Pontchartrain Park.
Jeff Landry has been using to travel around the state ... near where the governor lives, and from Lafayette to New Orleans multiple times during the early days of January. Landry spent a lot of time in New Orleans at the beginning of the year following ...
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has issued a proclamation on how American flags should be flown on President-elect Trump's Inauguration Day January 20.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is under scrutiny for posting a lighthearted photo of him outside a New Orleans restaurant hours after the deadly truck attack on New Year's Day. The photo, posted ...