The tribe representing current and former residents of a rapidly-sinking Louisiana island filed a civil rights complaint against the state over its handling of the New Isle project, the country’s first federally funded resettlement of a community threatened by climate change.
The Jean Charles Choctaw Nation alleges the state Office of Community Development subjected the tribal members to “serious and ongoing racial and ethnic discrimination” by taking over the tribal-led Isle de Jean Charles resettlement project, pushing tribal leaders out of the decision-making process, and producing a “shoddy” subdivision that took several years to build and is now expanding with homes that will be available to non-tribal members.
The complaint, filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Dec. 21, asks that the 515-acre New Isle subdivision north of Houma be turned over to the tribe or that OCD provide a new resettlement site. (NOLA.com 12/22/23) Tribe files civil rights complaint over resettlement project | Environment | nola.com
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