On Saturday, May 16th from 1-4 PM the Lower 9th Ward Village and the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) will hold the "Where's Your Neighbor" Community Resource Fair at the Lower 9th Ward Village - 1001 Charbonnet St. The fair will feature food, music and tabling by organizations that provide services to older people and people with disabilities. GNOFHAC staff will provide information on free counseling services available to homeowners as well as fair housing protections for people with disabilities.

At the resource fair, Lower 9th Ward Village Executive Director Ward "Mack" McClendon will announce plans for the "Where's Your Neighbor?" program, which seeks to develop a grassroots, community-led strategy for facilitating the return of residents still displaced from their Lower 9th Ward homes by Hurricane Katrina. The Lower 9th Ward Village is especially interested in reaching out to displaced elderly residents and residents with disabilities. Initial stages of the program will feature a public mural that combines new and existing data about displaced Lower 9th Ward residents into a comprehensive map of the Katrina diaspora. The map will be a shared resource that rebuilding organizations can use to target areas of greatest need.