Months past deadline, Jon Johnson starts work on blighted property
Business & Economy, Crime & Safety, Politics, Recovery
July 26th, 2012
Contractors have replaced the piers and most of the first-floor framing at Jon Johnson’s rental property on Deslonde Street. Photo by Danielle Belle
As he awaits sentencing in federal court, disgraced former City Councilman Jon Johnson finally is working to rehabilitate a Lower 9th Ward rental property for which he was awarded a taxpayer-financed loan.
The Lens and our partners at FOX8-TV reported on the property in May, highlighting the lack of work despite a $166,000 loan from the state. Johnson got the loan in July 2011, and…
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