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C. Ray wants your house.

Mayor Ray Nagin, appearing on the Eyewitness Morning News, reiterated his plan to enforce an ordinance giving homeowners until August 29 th - the one year anniversary of Katrina - to do something about their damaged homes or face the prospect of losing it.

Nagin said teams of workers will be sent out as next month to evaluate which homes haven't been gutted or worked on. At that point he said a "courtesy sticker" would be placed on the home warning that if action isn't taken the city will expropriate the land.

Here, Adrastos explains why this move is a particularly discourteous sticking of ACORN to whom Nagin pandered to on this very issue during the campaign.

For the record, I disagree with Adrastos about the 1 year deadline. I think it's yet another tool by which the post-Katrina power structure is working to concentrate wealth in the city.