Carly Berlin
New Orleans Metro ReporterCarly Berlin is the New Orleans Reporter for WWNO and WRKF. She focuses on housing, transportation, and city government. Previously, she was the Gulf Coast Correspondent for Southerly, where her work focused on disaster recovery across south Louisiana during two record-breaking hurricane seasons. Much of that reporting centered on the aftermath of Hurricanes Laura and Delta in Lake Charles, and was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center.
Carly grew up in Atlanta and earned a BA in English with a Creative Writing concentration from Bowdoin College in 2018.
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For the first time since 1976, the French President visited the European nation’s former colony Louisiana for a day with an agenda that focused primarily on energy transition and Francophone preservation in the Pelican State.
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The biggest roadblock to re-establishing commuter rail between Louisiana's two biggest cities is the rickety rail bridge over the Bonnet Carré spillway, according to a presentation given to a New Orleans City Council committee.
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Public transportation in New Orleans saw some big updates in 2022, including reconfigured bus routes, reduced fares and a new app. But in their annual report, advocacy group RIDE New Orleans highlights longstanding problems — like inequitable access to jobs for transit riders and poor communication about changes underway.
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Proposal to rescind residential STR permits is withdrawn; New Orleans officials mull over next stepsThe New Orleans City Council took steps toward overhauling the rules governing short-term rentals like those listed on Airbnb at its Thursday meeting, but stopped short of banning permits in residential areas.
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The new measure will require all New Orleans landlords to register their rentals with the city and attest they meet a list of health and safety standards. But it gets rid of a key provision to enforce those standards: proactive inspections.
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As the city prepares to overhaul its short-term rental rules, city council could move to effectively ban short-term rentals in residential areas at its upcoming meeting Thursday, after months of rule changes and moratoriums that have wreaked confusion on the controversial vacation rental industry.
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The "Healthy Homes" ordinance appeared to enjoy widespread backing by the Council at a packed hearing in September. But the Council has since deferred voting on it twice, and advocates fear a broad exception could be carved out for a wide swath of rental units across the city.
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The death in New Orleans East comes amid a spike in fatalities for all road users in the city, in line with a national trend.
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Even before the pandemic and Hurricane Ida, the city was experiencing an affordability crisis. But the pressures of the last few years have made the situation worse, according to HousingNOLA.
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If you’ve wracked up late fees on parking tickets, library books, or water bills, a returning city program could temporarily help pay them off.