Advocacy In Action

If you’d like to get more involved with our Advocacy in Action, please contact us here and be sure to include specific issues you’re interested in.

Below you can find more information about current issues we are working on:

440 Bourbon Street – More information to come soon. Read our comments here.

5 Necessary Revisions to the CPC Staff Report

A list of recommendations VCPORA identified with Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, along with various neighborhood and housing advocacy organizations

VCPORA Comments to City Planning Staff

To: New Orleans City Planning Commission 1300 Perdido St #7 New Orleans, LA 70112 (via email) Friday, January 13, 2023 Dear City Planning Commissioners and staff, Let me begin by commiserating with you over having to do this for a third time. We acknowledge...

Now is the Time to Write CPC and City Council!

What we want: Reasonable restrictions that will protect all New Orleans neighborhoods. It is imperative that you let our City officials know your concerns NOW! The City Planning Commission and City Council are already hearing from hundreds of pro-STR advocates. Make sure your voice is heard too.

Short Term Rentals – CPC Virtual Public Input Meeting

We need more neighborhood bans in areas most impacted by over tourism, like the Marigny, Tremé, and Bywater. Every neighborhood deserves protections for their housing stock, for their community, and for their quality of life.

Happy New Year! Here We Go Again…

Here we go again…
To guide the City Planning Department in their review of the regulations, the City Council issued a motion for them to look at a range of ways to protect neighborhoods from investor expansion of STRs, including additional/new prohibitions, capping measures, platform accountability and data collection, and updates to the fee and fine structures.

What is happening to Madame John’s Legacy?

You have likely noticed the ongoing work at 632 Dumaine Street, the structure known as Madame John’s Legacy. Built in 1788, just after the major fire of that year, it remains one of the best, if only, surviving examples of French Colonial architecture built during...

Advocacy Update: E-Scooter Ordinance

In 2018, the City adopted a policy prohibiting the roll-out of an app-based, e-scooter program. These are the ones that you can walk up to, scan a code on your phone for immediate payment, then ride from there. As the e-scooter craze was taking over the nation, City...