New Orleans is a HUD Choice Neighborhood recipient as well as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Challenge, which, among other things, offers access to influencers and innovative ideas from the government, private and nonprofit sectors.
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Ten years later, tour guides fill the streets telling tales of our haunted history.
ABC’s Robin Roberts and Fox Information Channel’s Shepard Smith, who anchor specials this weekend concerning the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating Gulf Coast landfall, each had causes to keep away from the subject.
As pointed out in an article by David Uberti in The Guardian last month, the housing market in New Orleans remains tight, and competition for the city’s diminished housing supply has seen median gross rents rise.
“On our way to the Superdome, in the boat, there were bodies floating”.
Obama will deliver a speech on August. 27 highlighting the progress made over the past 10 years. “I don’t want to remember it, because what we did was we failed as a society”. So we didn’t even know that until later. The oft-repeated footage of Bush praising Michael Brown, then the FEMA director, became a running joke.
Standing on the stage at the New Home Ministries Church in south Houston Thursday night, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu shared stories of heartbreak and destruction from 2005 when Hurricane Katrina decimated his city and the later transformation it has experienced. Thanks to UNITY, Roland has a new place to call home.
Homelessness was an out-of-control problem after Hurricane Katrina, but has been reined in a decade after the catastrophic storm, according to a report released Thursday. “It was personal for me having grown up on the coast and still having family living there”.
“I saw familiar landmarks from my childhood obliterated”. She’s from Move Christian, too.
“If people had been able to be notified the way I was by that parish president that it was about to flood, a lot of this wouldn’t have happened. I have compassion for the people affected, a true understanding of how it impacts lives”.
Like that of Diane Brugger, who lost her home and her husband. Roberts also talks to Syrena, a girl rescued from an inner-city rooftop, and chef John Besh, who mentored her to a top chef’s job.
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As the title alludes, ABC’s special is more about rebirth than recollections.
