How Housing Costs are Driving Out New Orleans' Music Culture - Video
PUBLISHED:  Feb 02, 2017
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Jazz vocalist John Boutté feels he can no longer afford to live in his hometown of New Orleans. He's not alone. Rising housing costs are pushing many musicians and service workers — the backbone of New Orleans' tourism economy — further and further outside the city limits. This suburbanization of the working class poses more than an inconvenience: It's fraying the culture of New Orleans and splintering the very neighborhoods that have nurtured the city's music for decades.

Hear John in concert here: http://n.pr/2eKstcs

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