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Nov 9, 2009 · Officials, even including President George W. Bush, seemed unaware of just how bad things were in New Orleans and elsewhere: how many people were stranded or missing; how many homes and...
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Aug 24, 2015 · Since 2005, New Orleans officials and federal agencies have made efforts to restore the city to its pre-Katrina vitality, and now 40 of the city’s 72 neighborhoods have recovered 90 percent of...
Hurricane Katrina was a devastating tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area.
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So the houses have sat. By 2010, the number of blighted properties had risen to more than 43,000—more than one-quarter of New Orleans’s housing stock. And that was five years after the storm.
The reconstruction of New Orleans refers to the rebuilding process endured by the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the city on August 29, 2005. The storm caused levees to fail, releasing tens of billions of gallons of water.
Aug 26, 2015 · The idea was to replace many of the old units with housing vouchers, which have more than doubled in number since Katrina and are now used by nearly 18,000 families, or one in 10 New Orleans ...
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Aug 29, 2020 · Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has better levees, better schools, more restaurants, more renovated houses, and yet, some storm-slammed neighborhoods are still blighted.
