Keeping the housing crisis bad by any mean necessary

Imagine caring this much about keeping the poors out of your neighborhood.

Members of the Touro Bouligny Neighborhood Association have filed a lawsuit challenging the proposed swap of McDonogh 7. If that effort fails, they want to be involved in decisions about the housing development's design, they said Tuesday. 

"We want the building to remain a school, but if litigation proves unsuccessful, we are focused on preventing the over 100-year-old building from being demolished, as well as keeping the density of any potential development in scale with the neighborhood," said Rella Zapletal, the association's president.

We're going to hear a lot over the next couple of weeks about things the city is and is not doing about housing. When the mayor and councilmembers say things about this, remember there is a well established constituency out there who are pressuring them not to do anything at all about it.