New Orleans officials began dispersing homeless residents sleeping or camping in the French Quarter and parts of the Marigny on Monday in the latest phase of their years-long effort to reduce the city’s unsheltered population.
Those efforts received a shot in the arm recently after Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration granted the city’s Low Barrier Shelter on Gravier Street $380,000 to fund permanent housing for shelter residents, a request local officials have long made of the state.
Enforcement began around 9 a.m. and resulted in at least two people choosing to be transported to the Low Barrier Shelter, 8th District Captain Samuel Palumbo told the French Quarter Management District at a meeting Monday…