Shannon Rainey lives in a houseย that wasย built on top of a Superfund site in theย Upperย Ninthย Ward of Newย Orleans.
โI bought my house when I was 25, and thirty years later, I still can’t get out,โย she toldย DeSmogBlog.
Raineyโs home in Gordon Plaza is part of a subdivision developed by the city in 1981ย on top of the Agriculture Streetย landfill.ย No one disclosed to the buyers thatย theirย new homes were built on top of a dump that was closed inย 1965.
Rainey has a view of two other city-owned properties also built on the landfill:ย the shuttered Morton Elementary School and Press Park, an abandoned housing project developed by the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO).
ย โIf it were white folks back here, this would be allย gone,โย Raineyย saysย bluntly.
