LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR: Shreveport Blight

Love Your Neighbor
212 Texas St, Suite 201
Shreveport, LA 71101

REMOVING BLIGHT IN
SHREVEPORT
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR

  • Organization Founded in July 2021
  • Partnered with Shreveport Volunteer Network, Caddo
    Heights Neighborhood Association, Reform Shreveport
    and City Councilwoman LeVette Fuller, on a neighborhood
    transformation project.
  • Selection of Caddo Heights
  • Inner-city Neighborhood
  • Suffers from Decades of Disinvestment
  • High Poverty Levels
  • Deteriorating Housing Stock
  • A neighborhood ripe for revitalization – Shreveport
    Master Plan

Multi Phase Approach

  • Shreveport Volunteer Network (SVN) led a group of
    volunteers to remove over 40 downed trees and debris
    from Hurricane Laura
  • Multiple Community Clean Ups
  • Towed dozens of Inoperable Vehicles
  • Demolished and Removed 10 Dilapidated and Abandoned
    houses – SVN led effort with City of Shreveport and
    Universal Plumbing
  • Funded primarily by First Presbyterian Church and St
    Mark’s Cathedral

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