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Katrina Redux
By Stephen Lendman (about the author) Page 3 of 4 page(s)
-- New Orleans ranks first in the nation in percentage of vacant or ruined housing units.
-- Four of the 13 city Planning Districts are as much at flood risk as before Katrina.
-- Only 11% of hard-hit Lower Ninth Ward families have returned; pre-Katrina, it was one of the country's richest cultural communities; one community leader said it had an "atmosphere of engagement;" in dialogue, music, words and history; a Make It Right Stakeholders Coalition promotes rebuilding and helps residents return to the neighborhood; federal and city authorities are committed to obstructing them.
-- Experts estimate it will take 20 to 25 years to rebuild New Orleans at the current pace of reconstruction.
-- There are 25% fewer hospitals in the metro area than pre-Katrina; 38% fewer hospital beds.
-- One-third of city neighborhoods have less than half their pre-Katrina households; ones where poor black people live.
-- Rents have risen 46% making housing unaffordable for poor and low income people.
-- 81% of city homeowners got insufficient funding to repair their homes.
-- post-Katrina, 10,000 homes were demolished.
-- thousands are still in temporary trailers; FEMA is slowly displacing them.
-- the homeless population doubled post-Katrina.
-- 32,000 children never returned to public schools; their population is half the pre-Katrina total.
-- 39,000 Louisiana homeowners applying for federal repair and rebuilding aid never got it.
-- 46,000 fewer black voters were eligible in 2007 than 2003.
-- there are nearly 72,000 vacant, ruined or unoccupied city houses.
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