NEW ORLEANS, LA (March 12, 2007) – New Orleans Mayor Nagin wants to clean up the city and is helping for help from his fellow citizens.

Mayor C. Ray Nagin encourages citizens both here in the city and those who remain displaced to register for Mayor Nagin’s Home Remediation Program which guts, boards, cuts the grass and in some cases pressure washes the homes of Orleans Parish homeowners who meet the eligibility requirements. This service, which is provided through NOAH, the city’s non-profit development corporation, is free-of-charge. Priority is given to senior citizens.

“This is a very valuable service, especially for our senior citizen community and low to moderate income residents,” said Mayor Nagin. “I want to encourage every resident who is not able either physically or financially to remediate their properties to register for this program by calling NOAH.”

To date, NOAH has remediated nearly 350 properties throughout the city of New Orleans, with the majority of those properties located in District D, which includes Gentilly, Pontilly and Gentilly Woods. They have utilized the following ten contractors: Biagas Enterprises, BNOB Construction Services, Carter’s Renovations, Charbonnet, Inc General Contractors, Blue Carpentry Construction Co., Matthews Developers, Myers and Sons Enterprises, W.T. Verges Construction Co, General Contracting Co., Inc., and Moon-Glo Developers. NOAH will meet with an additional ten contractors from the Office of Planning and Development Certified Contractors List in an effort to work with all of the contractors on the list.

(Source Press Release)