Andreanecia Morris

[Andreanecia Morris @andreanecia]

There are so many poignant quotes from Dr. King and I somehow thought I’d seen them all. I came across this one recently and it is everything, especially after today.

[National Center for Missing & Exploited Children @NCMEC]

HAVE YOU SEEN ME?
Ethan was last seen in Rosenberg, Texas on June 11, 2026.
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[NWS New Orleans @NWSNewOrleans]

🌀 Tropical Update: NHC has increased the chance of development for Invest 91L from 60% to 80% over the next 2 days.

Minor increases in rain chances and unsettled marine conditions remain possible early this week. Stay tuned for updates. 👀 #lawx #mswx

[#PutHousingFirst @GNOHA]

"The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act ... is built around four main goals: increasing home construction, expanding paths to ownership, modernizing manufactured and modular housing, and keeping single-family homes within reach of individual buyers."
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[Sam Karlin @samkarlin]

Entergy is making huge returns on Wall Street. It's building $16 billion worth of infrastructure for Meta's data center.

My latest: The company wants to charge residents for billions in spending. Should regulators let them? https://t.co/YjPeRdTLlY

[#PutHousingFirst @GNOHA]

Join us this week as Andreanecia Morris welcomes Logan Burke to the show to discuss data centers, utility costs, and the Louisiana Public Service Commission.
@andreanecia @All4Energy
Listen Live at https://t.co/0IU5WHCq3o

[#PutHousingFirst @GNOHA]

"One homeowner [stated] their homeowner's insurance would be cancelled in 30 days if the limb was not removed. ...New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways said it would be a year before they could trim the tree."

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[Alliance for Affordable Energy @All4Energy]

New Orleans residents! TODAY & TOMORROW from 8:30am to 4:30pm the City Council Utilities Support Electric Assistance Fund will be providing relief up to $500 to residents feeling the strain from their past due electricity bills. Learn more 👇
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[NOLA Ready @nolaready]

NOLAREADY: Dorothea Hernandez 82 white F is reported missing. Anyone with information is asked to call 504-658-6050. Visit https://t.co/ka8i9z8qL3 for more information.

[Sam Karlin @samkarlin]

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[Maxwell Tabarrok @MTabarrok]

Half the land area of Boston, a quarter of NYC, and 15% of San Francisco were raised from the sea before 1970.

Since then, land values have grown by 30x but land reclamation has ground to a halt.

This failure follows the spread environmental law around the world rather than any geographic, technological, or economic constraint.

Thus, our lack of land reclamation and the severe land constraints in our most important cities are self-imposed and avoidable. We should make more land!
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Land reclamation was common practice in American cities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Charleston, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, DC, Oakland, and LA all had major land reclamation projects that extended residential living space or infrastructure or both.

The Bay Area alone reclaimed an area of land equivalent to ten Manhattans between 1850 and 1957, at an inflation-adjusted cost of $330,000 per acre. Today, an acre of single-family-zoned land in San Francisco County averages $24 million. Even if the cost of land reclamation grew faster than inflation, despite technological leaps in dredging and construction technology, there should be plenty of room for profitable arbitrage.

And yet, land reclamation is extinct in the Bay Area as well as in every other American city. This isn’t because we ran out of good spots to reclaim: Two thirds of the San Francisco Bay is shallower than Boston’s Back Bay was when it was reclaimed in the 1860s. Nor is it because of better transportation: We’ve used up all of the easy suburban expansions enabled by the train and the automobile so prices are rising even in outlying suburbs.

Instead, land reclamation’s death is due to environmental law. Evidence for this claim shows up in the coincident timing of land reclamation’s demise across dozens of cities in the US and in the environmental compliance process of the few reclamation projects still inching along today, but the best evidence is found internationally.

No country has more experience or more reason to reclaim land than the Netherlands. The Dutch built 5% of their country out of the sea over the first half of the 20th century and by 1975 they had another artificial lake in the Zuiderzee ready to drain at the flip of a switch, which would have made tens of thousands of acres of land just east of Amsterdam. But a 1969 environmental review law, similar to NEPA in the US, stopped the project before it was finished and the site is now a protected bird sanctuary. Their one major reclamation since, the Maasvlakte 2 extension of the port of Rotterdam, took 11 years and 6,000 pages of environmental review before construction began.

Inversely, countries without these laws, like China, Singapore, and Japan have continued major land reclamation projects into the 21st century. China has reclaimed over 5,000 square kilometers since 2000, including a city of half a million outside Shanghai and Singapore has grown by a quarter since 1975.

Every major American city has a land shortage. But we have more than enough shallow water, dredging capacity, and market incentive to make more land, just like we did 150 years ago. The only obstacle is our own choice to make making land illegal. The benefits of more land in our most productive cities are large enough to justify the effort of reforming the laws that currently prevent it. Let’s make more land!

[Verite News @veritenewsnola]

Louisiana voters will decide in November whether to ensure local water utilities can use federal funding to pay to replace residents’ lead pipes. https://t.co/aXA2INzjko

[Abby D. Phillip @abbydphillip]

Shot, chaser:

[Andreanecia Morris @andreanecia]

Instead putting housing first—Trump is holding it hostage! #puthousingfirst

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

BREAKING NEWS: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has canceled the signing of the housing bill until Congress passes the SAVE America Act.

The stage is set in the Capitol.

House GOP leadership is literally on stage right now touting the bill.

[Sam Karlin @samkarlin]

Also, my story didn't "speculate" what regular people will pay for the gas plant. Entergy's own filings outlined that:

[#PutHousingFirst @GNOHA]

"[Tracey] Gilbert, who has long struggled to find housing she can afford on her income as an artist and doing odd jobs, said she believes that those resources are crucial in New Orleans as prices have risen."
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[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Agency Quietly Erased 'Minority' From the Rule That Protects Minority-Owned Banks https://t.co/Kubon7KOw2

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

On Tuesday, Trump's OCC deleted the word "minority" from how it defines a minority-owned bank

Now, a Black-owned bank might not qualify as "minority-owned," while "socially disadvantaged" whites can open minority-owned institutions https://t.co/icIxvzgeUh

[Alliance for Affordable Energy @All4Energy]

We’re here to fight for the rights and well-being of all Louisianans — and we’re not going anywhere. Read our response to an untruthful guest column in @NOLAnews ⤵️
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[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

The hate for Michelle Obama shows that no matter how beautiful, educated, poised, and dignified a Black woman is, White people will disrespect her.

[#PutHousingFirst @GNOHA]

“We are really grateful, and that this is coming to the housing trust fund also meaning that there has to be been more urgency to move the trust funds. To get the CEA sign, which has not happen yet.”
Thank you @andreanecia for representing the residents needs.
#PutHousingFirst