 1987-Congress passes a law mandating that torn-down housing units be replaced on a one-for-one basis, low-income housing- leaving Desire left to decay.1988-HUD revised its agreement with HANO to give the federal agency more oversight of persistent “operational and managerial deficiencies related to poor maintenance of the housing stock.”
Streetcar named desire use to run through 

1989-Larry Jones (HANO) blames racism for the problems in Desire.Aims to build the projects was quantity not quality 

1990-Public housing becomes even more grim in New Orleans.