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NEW ORLEANS - AUGUST 17: Resident Jacquelyn Boyd sits with her grandchildren Remi Trampagnier, 2 and Renard McCoy, 8, in the B.W. Cooper housing project August 17, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Before Hurricane Katrina, B.W. Cooper held about 1,000 families and was the city's largest housing project, but it is now mostly empty. Thousands of public housing residents in New Orleans have been unable to return to their apartments because they haven't been re-opened. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to tear down B.W. Cooper and other major New Orleans housing projects and replace them with mixed income developments. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

NEW ORLEANS - AUGUST 17:  Resident Jacquelyn Boyd sits with her grandchildren Remi Trampagnier, 2 and Renard McCoy, 8, in the B.W. Cooper housing project August 17, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Before Hurricane Katrina, B.W. Cooper held about 1,000 families and was the city's largest housing project, but it is now mostly empty. Thousands of public housing residents in New Orleans have been unable to return to their apartments because they haven't been re-opened. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to tear down B.W. Cooper and other major New Orleans housing projects and replace them with mixed income developments.  (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)