In New Orleans, public housing advocates are protesting the federal government’s decision to eliminate five thousand units of public housing. NAACP Civil Rights Attorney Tracie Washington has announced plans to sue the Department of Housing and Urban Development. And activists with the group United Front for Affordable Housing has vowed to use any means necessary to stop the bulldozing of their apartments. If the federal government’s plan goes forward, New Orleans will have lost 85 percent of its public housing over the past decade. The development has been welcomed by some. Shortly after Katrina devastated the city, Republican Congressman Richard Baker from Baton Rouge reportedly said “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.”