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To supplement the city’s offers to buy out Gordon Plaza residents, New Orleans City Council created a fund to help with any moving costs associated with relocation during its meeting Thursday.But where the money will come from – and how much residents will be eligible for – remain open questions.

An evaluation by an outside company found several flaws with the first public appraisal conducted on a house in Gordon Plaza, a New Orleans neighborhood built on top of toxic soil.A letter by ARC Appraisers provided an overview of possible problems within the appraisal based on federal and state standards. Chris Baker, the company’s chief appraiser, clarified that the letter didn’t serve as an official review of the report, which requires more scrutiny.

The city’s first public offer to buy out a home built on toxic soil fell short of Gordon Plaza residents’ expectations on Friday, raising concerns that the city won’t fully fund their relocation.

After months of heated debate over the city’s plan to relocate New Orleans residents from a toxic site, the appraiser charged with valuing the buyouts pledged to share his results publicly next week.

For months, residents of the development built atop a toxic landfall have pressed city officials and contractors to use a metric known as “replacement cost” for determining how much the city will pay them out. They argue that other, more traditional appraisal metrics would be discriminatory.

The push to relocate New Orleans residents off the former site of a toxic landfill hit a snag on Wednesday, leading to a fiery meeting between residents, city council and a law firm hired by the city to mediate the process.

The New Orleans City Council voted unanimously to set aside $35 million to relocate residents living in homes built on top of a toxic landfill on Thursday.

After more than a year of constant pressure from a group of Gordon Plaza residents, the New Orleans City Council and the Cantrell administration say relocation from the toxic landfill site is closer than ever. But the crucial questions of when and how remain unanswered.

Top officials in the Mayor LaToya Cantrell administration faced scrutiny from New Orleans City Council members Monday over the relocation of residents living on top of a hazardous waste site known as Gordon Plaza.

Residents of Gordon Plaza will continue their decades-long fight for relocation from their homes that sit on top of a former landfill known to cause cancer after city officials moved forward with a plan to assess the site rather than fund the residents’ move.