Post-Katrina Resources and Articles

For Information and Assistance:

• New Orleans Redevelopment Authority
• The Unified New Orleans Plan
• The Katrina Helping Handbook
• Katrina Legal Aid Resource Center
• Gulf Coast Civic Works Project
• American Bar Association Hurricane Katrina Disaster Resources
• LawHelp.org/LA
• Justice for New Orleans
• Common Ground Collective
• New Orleans Legal Assistance
• Pontchartrain Park - Gentilly Neighborhood Association
• Beyond Katrina: The Voices of Hurricane & Disaster Recovery
• ACORN Gulf Coast Recovery Campaign

Reports on the Reconstruction Effort:

• RAND Gulf States Policy Institute
• For the Good of the Gulf: UNC Law Winter/Spring Break Pro Bono Project Blog
• Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster (a multimedia project jointly produced by the Open Society Institute and MediaStorm)
• And Injustice for All: Workers' Lives in the Reconstruction of New Orleans (Advancement Project and the National Immigration Law Center, July 2006)
• Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises (America, Aug. 2006)
• Blueprint for Gulf Renewal: The Katrina Crisis and a Community Agenda for Action (Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch/Institute for Southern Studies, August/September 2007)
• Protecting Vulnerable Coastal Communities: Meaningful Political Action and Strategies for Environmental Justice After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (National Commission on Environmental Justice on the Gulf Coast and Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

News Articles about New Orleans after Katrina:

• Study: Millions Wasted in Katrina Contracts (MSNBC, Aug. 24, 2006)
• Largely Alone, Pioneers Reclaim New Orleans (New York Times, July 2, 2007)
• Road to New Life After Katrina Is Closed for Many (New York Times, July 12, 2007)
• Agency Erred in Canceling Loans to 8,000 Along Gulf, Audit Finds (New York Times, July 25, 2007)
• Hurricane Victims Rush to Apply for Grants as Deadline Looms (New York Times, Aug. 1, 2007)
• Trauma Shapes Katrina's Kids (USA Today, Aug. 16, 2007)
• A Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans Still at Risk (New York Times, Aug. 17, 2007)
• La. Policies Concentrate Poverty (The Times-Picayune, Sept. 17, 2007)
• New Orleans Hurt by Acute Rental Shortage (New York Times, Dec. 3, 2007)
• Back to New Orleans, but No Home (Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 5, 2007)
• Katrina's Wrath Lingers for New Orleans' Poor ( USA Today, Dec. 13, 2007
• FEMA Wins Appeal in Katrina Rental Aid (New York Times, Jan. 7, 2008)
• So Many Places to Live, but So Far Out of Reach (New York Times, Jan. 27,2008)
• FEMA Accused of Twisting Science in Report on Trailer Danger (CNN, Jan. 29, 2008)
• CDC Urges Hurricane Victims to Leave Trailers (NPR, Feb. 14, 2008)
• FEMA Vows New Effort on Trailers Posing Risks (New York Times, Feb. 15, 2008)
• Religious Leaders Help Renters Buy in New Orleans (NPR, March 14, 2008)
• New Orleans' Homeless Rate Swells to One in 25 (USA Today, March 16, 2008)
• Homeless Still Feel Katrina's Wrath (USA Today, March 16, 2008)
• Hunger Problem 'Urgent' for State (2theadvocate.com, March 17, 2008)
• Big Plans Are Slow to Bear Fruit in New Orleans (New York Times, April 1, 2008)
• Red Tape Snafus Choking Housing Program (The Times-Picayune, June 9, 2008)
• Leaving the Trailer: Out of the FEMA Park, Clinging to a Fraying Lifeline (New York Times, Aug. 4, 2008)
• U.S. Raids New Orleans Agency in Scandal Over Housing Cleanup Program (New York Times, Aug. 11, 2008)
• Amid Ruined New Orleans Neighborhoods, a Gadfly Buzzes (New York Times, Aug. 12, 2008)

Katrina Archives and Anniversaries:

• Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later: The Threatening Storm (Time Magazine, Aug. 1, 2007)
• Nola.com Hurricane Katrina Archive (Times-Picayune online)
• After Two Years, a Tangled Mix of Good and Bad (New York Times, Aug. 25, 2007)
• Life Since Katrina (New York Times interactive feature, Aug. 28, 2007)