Post-Katrina Resources and Articles

For Information and Assistance

• New Orleans Redevelopment Authority
• Gulf Coast Civic Works Project
• LouisianaLawHelp.org
• Common Ground Collective
• New Orleans Legal Assistance
• Pontchartrain Park - Gentilly Neighborhood Association

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 co-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 (Oxfam America, Aug. 2006)
• Giving Voice to the People of New Orleans: The Kaiser Post-Katrina Baseline Survey(Kaiser Family Foundation, May 2007)
• Blueprint for Gulf Renewal: The Katrina Crisis and a Community Agenda for Action (Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch and 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)
• New Orleans Three Years After the Storm: The Second Kaiser Post-Katrine Survey, 2008 (Kaiser Family Foundation, August 2008)
• Brookings Reports on New Orleans and Disaster Recovery
• The Gulf Coast and the New Administration (video, Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, Sept. 15, 2008)

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
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• The Patchy Return of New Orleans (New York Times interactive feature, Aug. 29, 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)
• Katrina, Three Years Later (City Journal, Aug. 28, 2008)
• Brookings New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition: Three Years after Katrina
• Health Care in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (Kaiser Family Foundation)