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Katrina’s Impact

Katrina’s Impact. 18 Months Later. Displaced Housing Healthcare Education Infrastructure Criminal Justice Signs of Hope. 25% of New Orleans Do Not Own Car. Not Just New Orleans. City Hall, Long Beach, MS. Katrina Damaged 90,000 Square Miles. Area from Boston to Baltimore

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Katrina’s Impact

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  1. Katrina’s Impact 18 Months Later

  2. Displaced Housing Healthcare Education Infrastructure Criminal Justice Signs of Hope

  3. 25% of New Orleans Do Not Own Car

  4. Not Just New Orleans

  5. City Hall, Long Beach, MS

  6. Katrina Damaged 90,000 Square Miles Area from Boston to Baltimore Inland hundreds of miles Size of Oregon

  7. Still Displaced

  8. 80% of New Orleans Flooded

  9. One Million Displaced

  10. September 10, 2005 in Shelters • 64% Renters • 55% Did Not Have a Car • 93% African-American • 67% Employed • 76% Had Children under 18 In Shelter Too • 57% incomes of Less than $20,000/year

  11. 280,000 Still Displaced New Orleans Alone • Pre-K 484,000 people • Post-K 200,000 people • African-American pop dropped from 325,000 to 89,000 (73% decrease) • White pop dropped from 136,000 to 81,000 (41 % decrease) • Children decreased from 145,000 to 40,000 • Metro Area dropped from 1 million to 666k Source: LRA 11.27.06

  12. St. Bernard Parish: Post-K Rent Only to Blood Relatives

  13. Jefferson Parish Council Passes Resolution Opposing Tax Credits for Housing. Member Chris Roberts: "With the number of jobs out there, nobody should be on public housing unless you're ignorant or lazy."

  14. We do not want “thugs” and “trash” from New Orleans public housing projects.Everyone with dreadlocks or che-wee hairstyles will be stopped by law enforcement.” Sheriff Jack Strain St. Tammany Parish

  15. Housing

  16. 112,000 Owner occupied homes 84,000 Rental homes DAMAGED HOMES IN LOUISIANA

  17. 90,000 Families in LA in 240 sq ft. Trailers – January 07

  18. Good News – LA gets $10 billion

  19. Bad News: Little Federal Housing Rehab $ YetFebruary 2007 – 532 people out of 105,000 applicants

  20. Estimated 5% of the 100,000 LA Applications forFederal Housing Assistancehave Title Problems Source: LRA RFP Legal Services October 25, 2006

  21. 51,000 Rental Units Seriously Damaged in New Orleans

  22. CDBG – Tiny % Going to Renters 84,000 rental units were destroyed or suffered major damage (41% of the total housing) only 15% of the $10 billion program is to be spent on rental units. Of those funds only 15,000 apartments are scheduled to be affordable housing – about 18% of the pre-disaster rental housing market.

  23. Rents Soar 70-80%

  24. Pre-Katrina, 5000 families lived in public housing

  25. Post-Katrina, 1040 families allowed to return to public housing HUD Announces Demolition of 5000 Apartments

  26. Healthcare

  27. Refusal to Reopen Public Hospital –that saw 350,000 a year

  28. Blue Cross: “3/4 of physicians in New Orleans gone.”

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