It took nearly a
month and a half to pump all of the water out of New Orleans after Hurricane
Katrina. After Katrina, New Orleans’s population plummeted from
484,000 to 230,000; in 2014 it was back up to 384,000. In 2010, there were
still 48,000 vacant housing units. Thousands of homeowners in and around New Orleans are still unable to pay for damages that remain from Hurricane Katrina. The majority didn’t have flood insurance before Katrina and were forced to rely on the government for assistance to rebuild their homes. Some of the traditionally impoverished neighborhoods are now flourishing after new housing developments spurred by the new upper-income, educated workforce that came following Katrina. The down side though, is that the new developments have caused rents to increase and have made it very difficult for low-income people to be able to make it.
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