Judging from the standing-room-only meeting space for the second New Orleans “BlightStat” meeting, public interest in the city’s new statistics-driven performance management process to reduce blight is overwhelming.
As a metric of the success of the effort to have NolaStat recommendations implemented by the Landrieu administration, the packed BlightStat meeting suggests that the message has… »

Dear NolaStat supporters,
The very first NolaStat meeting in the City of New Orleans took place last Thursday. NolaStat is now an official city program focused on results-oriented government.
The inaugural BlightStat session focused on Mayor Landrieu’s goal of eliminating 10,000 blighted or vacant properties in three years. BlightStat meetings will be held every other… »