Since moving to New Orleans five years ago (a span about which Juarez is both forthright and somewhat abashed), he's seen similar patterns of displacement. The genesis of "The Subletter's Omen" was the unexpected loss of a Mid-City neighbor, “Ms. Audrey,” who was forced to relocate to Kenner when her rent jumped from $750 to $1,350.
"She'd been on our block for a long time," Juarez says, "someone who was always on the porch, talking to people, feeding the cats. Now there's an Airbnb there. The house next to us is an Airbnb too, and on the corner is a giant place that's been divided up into four Airbnbs. And this is Mid-City, not Bywater! I felt in a way that when we lost Ms. Audrey the neighborhood lost its heart."
That painful farewell became the opening of “The Subletter's Omen.”
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Most haunted house stories are about gentrification
This seems sort of in line with that.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
NOLA.com: We will celebrate the advent of "Broadway South" by trolling it
They sent Sam The Eagle to review Book of Mormon with predictable results.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
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