Mike at work
From Tent City to Abandoned Buildings
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
From: David Weinberg
Length: 00:04:02
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- From Tent City to Abandoned Buildings
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There are about 61,000 abandoned buildings in New Orleans and its Mike Miller's job to search those buildings one by one, looking for squatters. We travel with Mike into an abandoned school in the St. Roch neighborhood where he finds about twenty bedrolls.
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