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 NEW YORK (AP) - New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina must be allowed to return and have the chance to profit from the rebuilding effort, NAACP President Bruce Gordon said Sunday.
Gordon was among civil rights leaders, lawmakers and businessmen gathered at the Wall Street Project, an annual conference in New York created to promote diversity and equity in the financial sector. It coincides with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
"We have to make sure that the housing stock that is recreated is ultimately occupied by those who owned a home before Katrina," Gordon said at a news conference kicking off the conference.
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