Gueringer remembers the route that most of the buses took. “They rode down Claiborne Avenue from downtown, over the bridge and maybe took a quick turn down Caffin (Avenue) before going on to St. Bernard Parish and New Orleans East,” she said.
Afterward, officials would mention the Lower 9th Ward in speeches and pledge that, with their help, it would recover.
But now it seems to many that the only progress being made in the neighborhood is in the cluster of modern homes built by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right project, said the ACORN members.
ACORN has been under assault at the state and federal levels in recent days because of a series of scandals involving allegations of embezzlement, voter registration fraud, failure to pay wage taxes and embarrassing undercover videos of employees advising a fake pimp and prostitute on how to run a brothel.

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