Ah the NIMBYs look like they've won one

Kinda thought they might be able to stop this. The further uptown you get, the better the neighborhood association people are at shutting down affordable housing projects. 

Update: That article was just at stem when I posted this but now that it's been fleshed out it's... yeah well it is what I thought.

Still, Wheeler said a lawsuit by the Touro Bouligny Neighborhood Association and a recent swell of opposition to the swap gave her pause.

In its May suit, the neighborhood group argued that the land ought to remain a school and criticized the OPSB for not giving other charter school operators more time to decide if they want McDonogh No. 7 before offering it to HANO.

Wheeler also highlighted a swell of neighborhood opposition to HANO’s separate plan to redevelop vacant land as affordable housing in Bywater, another neighborhood with high property values.

“The people in Bywater and in Uptown... are not going to sit idly by, when they say they don’t want to (see something turned into affordable) housing,” Wheeler said. “I would rather see us have housing that’s not necessarily Uptown, but still have housing.”

Oh no these rich people might get mad at us if we don't respect their redlined and segregated neighborhoods.  Probably should just give them whatever they want, I guess.