Aug. 29 marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, becoming one of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history. From the George W. Bush administration’s criminal neglect to the unprepared local agencies, the government left the working-class and Black residents to die. Public housing demolished and not replacedOne of the first, and most controversial undertakings of this new privatization scheme was the gutting of public housing. They pushed to convert public housing into “mixed income” housing. Many of these units are privately owned Section 8-eligible units, which don’t have the tenant rights and protections of public housing.