Joy Williams + Stephanie McLeish
NEW ORLEANS RESIDENT OF 50+ YEARS // New Orleans Native
“Honestly, this might sound crazy, but gentrification means nothing to me. Because I’m not going to let that word frighten me or change my relationship with people I’ve come to know and love, or just in general.”
NEW ORLEANS RESIDENT OF 18 YEARS // Georgia Native
“I guess my hope would be that as people move that they would take the time to get to know their neighbors and appreciate the culture of New Orleans and care for the people on their block and get to know them. But my fear is that this is happening so quickly that it’s going to be all newcomers to the city and there’s going to be no New Orleans culture left in the neighborhood.”