Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour won't let calls from housing advocates and lawmakers deter his plans to divert $570 million of federal hurricane recovery funds from a housing program to the expansion of the Port of Gulfport. More...
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There's speculation that the Mississippi governor and former Republican National Committee chair may be considering a run for the White House. Do we really want the United States to be run like the most impoverished state in the nation? More...
A growing number of prisons, jails and sheriffs departments are charging inmates for their own incarceration, a move authorities say is necessary to counter rising costs and budget cutbacks during the recession. But civil liberties groups say these policies are creating debtors' prisons. More...
This past week Gulf Coast advocates sent President-Elect Barack Obama a letter urging the signing of an Executive Order authorizing the Gulf Coast Civic Works Program to be included in the new stimulus package. More...
The Mississippi State Conference NAACP, Gulf Coast Fair Housing Center and several individual residents filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) challenging its approval of a plan submitted by the state of Mississippi... More...
The U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved Mississippi's plan to expand the Port of Gulfport, a move that housing advocates have rallied against for months because it diverts $570 million in federal funding away from critical housing needs along the Gulf Coast. More...
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi's battered coast is regaining population but still lacks affordable housing for its poorest residents, reports USA Today. The article goes on the say:Lack of affordable housing remains a thorny challenge, according to a study... More...
A New York Times editorial last week took a hit at Mississippi over its misspending of Hurricane Katrina relief funds. Facing South has reported on the controversy surrounding the State of Mississippi’s plans to divert emergency federal funding from... More...
Facing South has reported on the affordable housing crisis along the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the wake of the 2005 hurricanes. Last September we reported on the State of Mississippi’s move to transfer $600 million from a housing program... More...
The Washington Post published an excellent report in yesterday's paper on the deep divide in the post-Katrina recovery along the Mississippi coast, where beyond the bright lights of the newly built casinos working-class neighborhoods remain in darkness and more than... More...
Poor New Orleanians are not the only Gulf Coast residents whose post-Katrina housing needs are being treated with disregard by their government: Low-income residents of Mississippi are also facing dire problems that have been exacerbated by the actions of Congress,... More...
We recently brought you the story of Mississippi's plan to divert $600 million in federal funds from a housing program for low-income homeowners hit by Hurricane Katrina to improve the state port at Gulfport.Advocacy groups including Oxfam America, the Mississippi... More...
A Mississippi agency wants to divert $600 million in federal funds from a housing program created to help low-income homeowners who suffered losses in Hurricane Katrina and use it to spruce up the State Port at Gulfport, the Associated Press... More...
With all the attention on Election '08, it's easy to forget that there are important elections underway in '07, such as state-wide contests in Mississippi, where the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is still being felt in state politics.In primary elections... More...
A team of 30 college kids on bicycles rode through Western North Carolina and over the mountains to East Tennessee last week on their way to San Diego. Their mission: To raise awareness of affordable housing issues and to raise... More...
Bush's proposed $2.9 trillion budget includes a record $481 billion for defense spending, a 12% increase, plus $245 billion for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here at home, Bush's budget cuts $101 billion in Medicare and Medicaid funding, and... More...
Citizens across the country have been encountering difficulties at the polls today, with some of the problems occurring in the South.Voters at several precincts in South Mississippi reported problems with new touch-screen machines being used in today's midterm elections, the... More...
One year ago today, Chris Kromm had asked me to guest blog for a week at Facing South while he was away on vacation. August 29th was my first day. I had several topics lined up to discuss, but the... More...
Reports from immigrant rights protests around the South keep rolling in. These are the official estimates:3,500 in Columbia, South Carolina ...50,000 predicted in Atlanta ...500 in Jackson, Mississippi today and 500 marched in Gulfport yesterdayHere's a list of events around... More...
By R. NealLousiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said on CNN last night that the situation was "dire." Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour called it "catastrophic." There are at least 50 confirmed fatalilties in Mississippi. Officials in both Louisiana and Mississippi expect... More...
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