Leslie Garrote + Niahmiah Sylvester

NEW ORLEANS RESIDENT OF 16 YEARS // St. Paul, MN Native

“I feel confident that God is pro-beauty so when I see buildings being made more beautiful, being restored to what they are supposed to look like and not raggedy, I think that’s good. But I think Beauty also looks like having elderly folks in the neighborhood and having their wisdom, having families…” 

NEW ORLEANS RESIDENT OF 15 YEARS // NEw Orleans Native

“The lease going up and stuff like that, they had a meeting about the rent and everything going up. To be honest, its horrible but you have more meetings about it so… My reaction [if rent doubled]... I would raise money and leave. Honestly, because I’m not for it.”