Residents of the C.J. Peete Public Housing Development, Katrina survivors one and all, will reoccupy their homes in the complex 4:30 pm Tuesday.

The reoccupation of the C. J. Peete Development finds its legal justification in the United Nations Guidelines On Internally Displaced Persons to which the United States government is bound by law. The failure of the Housing Authority Of New Orleans to respect the right of return of public housing residents compels C.J. Peete residents to reoccupy their homes without the assistance of the housing authority. This action will, in fact, mark the beginning of the reopening of the C.J. Peete Development. It will also help give hope to the tens of thousands of New Orleanians from public housing and section 8 rentals now in exile that the day of return for all of them is drawing closer.