Editor’s Note: Our first piece, Who Really Owns New Orleans Now, sparked a strong response — not just in readership, but in what readers asked for next: more depth, more evidence, and more answers. While that article was designed as a broad overview of a long-standing problem, it quickly became clear that a deeper investigation […]
Editor’s Note: Big Easy Magazine has just published Who Really Owns New Orleans Now, Part II: A Deeper Dive—the first in an ongoing editorial series examining housing, ownership, and development in New Orleans. When homes are sold, but no one moves in… when a neighborhood feels emptier even as property values rise… when your neighbor’s […]
In the conversation around housing affordability, small landlords often catch the heat. To be clear – the rising rents, evictions, and disappearing neighborhoods plaguing New Orleans aren’t being driven by the woman renting out her shotgun double. They’re being driven by Wall Street. Corporate landlords—not small, local ones—are the real force hollowing out the city’s […]
New Orleans is facing a slow-moving disaster—one not caused by hurricanes or levee breaches, but by skyrocketing insurance premiums. The state’s broken property insurance market is driving homeowners to the brink, pushing renters out of neighborhoods they’ve lived in for generations, and shrinking the city’s population in real time. Behind it all: a perfect storm […]
New Orleans is facing a housing crisis that’s displacing many of its lifelong residents. As rental prices soar, the fabric of neighborhoods is unraveling, leaving us to question: What is the true cost of this upheaval? The Data Behind the Crisis Recent statistics reveal a troubling trend. According to data from Zillow, the average rent […]
Gentrification has become one of the most hotly debated urban issues in America—but nowhere is the conversation more raw, more visible, or more urgent than in New Orleans. A city once known for its affordability, culture, and working-class spirit is now grappling with rising rents, displacement, and the deep tensions that come with change. So […]
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