<description>In the final installment of our exploration of Subsidence and Evictions, we delve into economic and political strategies to address the realities facing the land and people of New Orleans. 

Do we lift houses to mitigate flood damage? What could replace the current landlord/tenant system for rental housing? From the systemic to the practical, my guests challenge us to expand our sense of what is and is not possible.

Helping us bring this series home are Austin Feldbaum, the Hazard Mitigation Coordinator for the City of New Orleans; Kate Scott, a landlord and housing justice advocate; and Aron Chang, an urban planner and climate educator.

Music in this episode is by Circus Marcus.

You can help us keep creating this kind of content by supporting Antenna's work at www.antenna.works/donate

This podcast is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Louisiana Division of the Arts, Arts Council New Orleans, The RosaMary Foundation, Morris Adjmi Architects and most importantly by individuals like you. You can subscribe to support this and all other Antenna programming, which includes publications delivered right to your doorstep. Subscribe to hear more at www.antenna.works/subscribe.

This series was produced by Marie Lovejoy for Antenna with editorial support by Shea Shackleford. Thank you for listening with us.</description>

In the final installment of our exploration of Su…

In the final installment of our exploration of Subsidence and Evictions, we delve into economic and political strategies to address the realities facing the land and people of New Orleans. 

Do we lift houses to mitigate flood damage? What could replace the current landlord/tenant system for rental housing? From the systemic to the practical, my guests challenge us to expand our sense of what is and is not possible.

Helping us bring this series home are Austin Feldbaum, the Hazard Mitigation Coordinator for the City of New Orleans; Kate Scott, a landlord and housing justice advocate; and Aron Chang, an urban planner and climate educator.

Music in this episode is by Circus Marcus.

You can help us keep creating this kind of content by supporting Antenna's work at www.antenna.works/donate

This podcast is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Louisiana Division of the Arts, Arts Council New Orleans, The RosaMary Foundation, Morris Adjmi Architects and most importantly by individuals like you. You can subscribe to support this and all other Antenna programming, which includes publications delivered right to your doorstep. Subscribe to hear more at www.antenna.works/subscribe.

This series was produced by Marie Lovejoy for Antenna with editorial support by Shea Shackleford. Thank you for listening with us.

SINK Episode 5::Radical Shift

<description>In previous episodes of SINK, a series exploring subsidence and evictions in New Orleans, we’ve talked about the plight of landlords and tenants, an already fraught situation exacerbated by the pandemic. For this episode, I want to address Environmental Eviction. When the land is no longer habitable and people are forced to move. But what causes this change? I talked to local artists and activists John Taylor and Monique Verdin for their perspective. This is the Antenna Signals Podcast, a podcast exploring the people and ideas that flow into and out of New Orleans. We’re on Episode 4 of our Series on Evictions and Subsidence. This is SINK:: Episode 4::It Belongs to You.

Thank you to Monique Verdin and John Taylor.

Learn more about Monique's work here: https://www.moniqueverdin.com

And learn more about John's here: https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/john-w-taylor

Shana Griffin and Shea Shackleford provided editorial support. This piece was produced by Marie Lovejoy.

Music in this episode is by Circus Marcus, Selva de Mar, Aaron Ximm and Neil Cross. 

You can help us keep creating this kind of content by supporting Antenna's work at www.antenna.works/donate

This podcast is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Louisiana Division of the Arts, Arts Council New Orleans, The RosaMary Foundation, Morris Adjmi Architects and most importantly by individuals like you. You can subscribe to support this and all other Antenna programming, which includes publications delivered right to your doorstep. Subscribe to hear more at www.antenna.works/subscribe.

Land Acknowledgement by Monique Verdin, Houma Nation, 2021 Juneteenth

"There would be no land to acknowledge upon which you now rest if it were not for the Mississippi River. Indigenous Peoples have respected this ever-shifting fluid state at the end of one of the world’s largest river systems, inhabiting the high grounds, along the bayous of Bvlbancha, for centuries, as long as there has been land in these territories. 

Bvlbancha, “place of many tonges” as the Chahta called it, a place of many languages, know better as the global port city rebranded as New Orleans. 

Ancestral and current Indigenous stewards of these lands and waters, are Chahta, Chitimatcha, Houma, Biloxi, Washa, Chawasha, Bayougoula, Tchoupitoulas, Tunica, Atakapa-Ishak, Caddo, Natchez, Acolapissa, Taensa, and other nations; And all those nations that were erased or assimilated before colonial records had a change to document their existence. 

The Atakapa-Ishak called these high grounds, where a crossroads of waterways provide access to sites of sacred trade and ceremony ‘the big village,’ Nun Ush. A territory of biological and cultural diversity, where water travels through, looking to be purified as it makes its water cycle journey back to the sea or skies. 

This place is also where many People from Senegambia, the Blight of Benin, Bight of Biafra, and West-Central Africa and other African Nations were brought against their will, enslaved upon these lands. A place were Immigrants and Indigenous peoples from around the world have found and continue to find themselves, due to desires for a better life or nonnegotiable destinies, in this complicated and infinitely beautiful powerpoint on the planet known in the Lower Mississippi River Delta."</description>

In previous episodes of SINK, a series exploring …

In previous episodes of SINK, a series exploring subsidence and evictions in New Orleans, we’ve talked about the plight of landlords and tenants, an already fraught situation exacerbated by the pandemic. For this episode, I want to address Environmental Eviction. When the land is no longer habitable and people are forced to move. But what causes this change? I talked to local artists and activists John Taylor and Monique Verdin for their perspective. This is the Antenna Signals Podcast, a podcast exploring the people and ideas that flow into and out of New Orleans. We’re on Episode 4 of our Series on Evictions and Subsidence. This is SINK:: Episode 4::It Belongs to You.

Thank you to Monique Verdin and John Taylor.

Learn more about Monique's work here: https://www.moniqueverdin.com

And learn more about John's here: https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/john-w-taylor

Shana Griffin and Shea Shackleford provided editorial support. This piece was produced by Marie Lovejoy.

Music in this episode is by Circus Marcus, Selva de Mar, Aaron Ximm and Neil Cross. 

You can help us keep creating this kind of content by supporting Antenna's work at www.antenna.works/donate

This podcast is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Louisiana Division of the Arts, Arts Council New Orleans, The RosaMary Foundation, Morris Adjmi Architects and most importantly by individuals like you. You can subscribe to support this and all other Antenna programming, which includes publications delivered right to your doorstep. Subscribe to hear more at www.antenna.works/subscribe.

Land Acknowledgement by Monique Verdin, Houma Nation, 2021 Juneteenth

"There would be no land to acknowledge upon which you now rest if it were not for the Mississippi River. Indigenous Peoples have respected this ever-shifting fluid state at the end of one of the world’s largest river systems, inhabiting the high grounds, along the bayous of Bvlbancha, for centuries, as long as there has been land in these territories. 

Bvlbancha, “place of many tonges” as the Chahta called it, a place of many languages, know better as the global port city rebranded as New Orleans. 

Ancestral and current Indigenous stewards of these lands and waters, are Chahta, Chitimatcha, Houma, Biloxi, Washa, Chawasha, Bayougoula, Tchoupitoulas, Tunica, Atakapa-Ishak, Caddo, Natchez, Acolapissa, Taensa, and other nations; And all those nations that were erased or assimilated before colonial records had a change to document their existence. 

The Atakapa-Ishak called these high grounds, where a crossroads of waterways provide access to sites of sacred trade and ceremony ‘the big village,’ Nun Ush. A territory of biological and cultural diversity, where water travels through, looking to be purified as it makes its water cycle journey back to the sea or skies. 

This place is also where many People from Senegambia, the Blight of Benin, Bight of Biafra, and West-Central Africa and other African Nations were brought against their will, enslaved upon these lands. A place were Immigrants and Indigenous peoples from around the world have found and continue to find themselves, due to desires for a better life or nonnegotiable destinies, in this complicated and infinitely beautiful powerpoint on the planet known in the Lower Mississippi River Delta."

SINK Episode 4::It Belongs to You

<description>Welcome back to the Antenna::Signals podcast. This is episode three of our series SINK::Subsidence and Evictions in New Orleans.

In the first episode, we concentrated on eviction policies, how these policies are generated and who they benefit. In the second, we considered the science of regional groundwater subsidence alongside these systems.

Now we’re going to hear from two people most affected by evictions; tenants.

First up is Heidi Breaux. Three times during this pandemic, Heidi has come home to an eviction notice on her door.

Then we’ll talk with Justin Scalise, an actor and vocal coach whose family was evicted from their Metairie home thirty years ago, when Justin was 10 years old.

Y’all, this whole series we’re talking about people who don’t or can’t pay their rent being removed from their homes. But for me, over and over the same question keeps surfacing. So as you listen to the rest of the series I want you to ask yourself: what does it mean to live in a community?

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If you are having trouble paying your rent and possibly facing eviction, there are people who can help you. In New Orleans, contact Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative
https://www.jpnsi.org

They even have this really great informative webcomic: Help, I’m Being Evicted! A Step by Step Guide for Renters in New Orleans

Music in this episode is by Aaron Ximm. Breathing sound effects performed by Justin Scalise. Additional sound effects provided by Hampusnoren at freesound.org. Shea Shackleford served as editor. This piece was produced by Marie Lovejoy.

You can help us keep creating this kind of content by supporting Antenna's work at

http://antenna.works/donate

This podcast is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Louisiana Division of the Arts, Arts Council New Orleans, The RosaMary Foundation, Morris Adjmi Architects and most importantly by individuals like you. You can subscribe to support this and all other Antenna programming, which includes publications delivered right to your doorstep. Subscribe to hear more at

http://antenna.works/subscribe</description>

Welcome back to the Antenna::Signals podcast. Thi…

Welcome back to the Antenna::Signals podcast. This is episode three of our series SINK::Subsidence and Evictions in New Orleans.

In the first episode, we concentrated on eviction policies, how these policies are generated and who they benefit. In the second, we considered the science of regional groundwater subsidence alongside these systems.

Now we’re going to hear from two people most affected by evictions; tenants.

First up is Heidi Breaux. Three times during this pandemic, Heidi has come home to an eviction notice on her door.

Then we’ll talk with Justin Scalise, an actor and vocal coach whose family was evicted from their Metairie home thirty years ago, when Justin was 10 years old.

Y’all, this whole series we’re talking about people who don’t or can’t pay their rent being removed from their homes. But for me, over and over the same question keeps surfacing. So as you listen to the rest of the series I want you to ask yourself: what does it mean to live in a community?

———————————————————-

If you are having trouble paying your rent and possibly facing eviction, there are people who can help you. In New Orleans, contact Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative
https://www.jpnsi.org

They even have this really great informative webcomic: Help, I’m Being Evicted! A Step by Step Guide for Renters in New Orleans

Music in this episode is by Aaron Ximm. Breathing sound effects performed by Justin Scalise. Additional sound effects provided by Hampusnoren at freesound.org. Shea Shackleford served as editor. This piece was produced by Marie Lovejoy.

You can help us keep creating this kind of content by supporting Antenna's work at

http://antenna.works/donate

This podcast is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Louisiana Division of the Arts, Arts Council New Orleans, The RosaMary Foundation, Morris Adjmi Architects and most importantly by individuals like you. You can subscribe to support this and all other Antenna programming, which includes publications delivered right to your doorstep. Subscribe to hear more at

http://antenna.works/subscribe

SINK Episode 3::The Best We Can

S-I-N-K. You know the feeling. That sinking feeling where you think you’re on solid ground. But everything’s falling apart. 

To live in New Orleans is to live near the water. We breathe it in our air. We feel it on our skin and under our feet.

I wanted to know about the science of the ground sinking beneath us. And maybe by looking at subsidence of Louisiana soil while simultaneously learning more about the housing policies rooted upon this earth…maybe I could think about all of this in a new way. Maybe I can learn more about my part in this ecosystem. And work to make changes for the benefit of all involved.

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Many thanks to our guests for their contributions to this episode:

Cyndhia Ramatchandirane, a geoscientist at Earthjustice working to communicate the health, environmental and climate impacts of fossil fuels.
https://earthjustice.org/about/staff/cyndhia-ramatchandirane

Hannah Adams, a attorney focused on landlord tenant disputes and a board member of Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative www.slls.org

Davida Finger, an educator at Loyola Law School working with students representing low income clients. law.loyno.edu/academics/faculty-…tory/davida-finger

Shana Griffin, co-founder of Jame Place Sustainability Initiative, artist and activist. As Interim Executive Director of Antenna, Shana also provided editorial assistance to this series. www.shanamgriffin.com

Andreaneica Morris, the Executive Director of Housing NOLA. www.housingnola.org/main/home

Y. Frank Southall, Lead Organizer and Community Engagement Coordinator of the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative and member of the New Orleans Renter’s Rights Assembly www.jpnsi.org nolarra.wordpress.com

Music in this episode is by Circus Marcus, Selva de Mar, Aaron Ximm. and The Roots of Music. Shea Shackleford served as editor. This piece was produced by Marie Lovejoy.

You can help us keep creating this kind of content by supporting Antenna's work at www.antenna.works/donate

This podcast is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Louisiana Division of the Arts, Arts Council New Orleans, The RosaMary Foundation, Morris Adjmi Architects and most importantly by individuals like you. You can subscribe to support this and all other Antenna programming, which includes publications delivered right to your doorstep. More at www.antenna.works/subscribe.

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S-I-N-K. You know the feeling. That sinking feeli…

SINK Episode 2::The Land Beneath Us

The theme for this episode is Subsidence, the sinking of the earth. I think about this sinking when I look around our city of New Orleans.  I think about how the pandemic has removed the primary source of income for so many people and the sinking feeling that comes with that.  And I think about the massive amounts of evictions that are coming.

So I talked to some people who have been working on housing issues since long before restaurants shuttered and parades got cancelled. I talked to some people who know how the earth can disappear beneath your feet.

This is the first episode of a series on Subsidence and Evictions in New Orleans. This series was produced by Marie Lovejoy. Shea Shackleford served as editor.

Many thanks to our guests for their contributions to this episode:

Hannah Adams, a attorney focused on landlord tenant disputes and a board member of Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative slls.org

Davida Finger, an educator at Loyola Law School working with students representing low income clients. law.loyno.edu/academics/faculty-and-staff-directory/davida-finger

Shana Griffin, co-founder of Jame Place Sustainability Initiative, artist and activist and Interim Executive Director of Antenna shanamgriffin.com

Andreaneica Morris, the Executive Director of Housing NOLA. housingnola.org/main/home

Y. Frank Southall, Lead Organizer and Community Engagement Coordinator of the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative and member of the New Orleans Renter’s Rights Assembly 
jpnsi.org 
nolarra.wordpress.com

Music in this episode is by Circus Marcus, Selva de Mar, Aaron Ximm. and The Roots of Music.

You can help us keep creating this kind of content by supporting Antenna's work at 
antenna.works/donate

This podcast is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Louisiana Division of the Arts, Arts Council New Orleans, The RosaMary Foundation, Morris Adjmi Architects and most importantly by individuals like you. You can subscribe to support this and all other Antenna programming, which includes publications delivered right to your doorstep. More at 
antenna.works/subscribe.

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