JTF: New Orleans Three Years Later

dobbie6060 · Joined: Aug 24, 2007 Posts: 273

New Orleans Three Years Later: Katrina Pain Index
Bill Quiqley, Truthout
Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast three years ago this week. The president promised to do whatever it took to rebuild. . .
This is what New Orleans looks like today.

0: Number of renters in Louisiana who have received financial assistance from the $10 billion federal post- Katrina rebuilding program Road Home Community Development Block Grant - compared to 116,708 homeowners.

0: Number of apartments currently being built to replace the 963 public housing apartments formerly occupied and now demolished at the St. Bernard Housing Development.

0: Amount of data available to evaluate performance of publicly financed, privately run charter schools in New Orleans in 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years.

0.8: Percentage of rental homes that were supposed to be repaired and occupied by August 2008 which were actually completed and occupied - a total of 82 finished out of 10,000 projected.

4: Number of the 13 City of New Orleans Planning Districts that are at the same risk of flooding as they were before Katrina.

10: Number of apartments being rehabbed so far to replace the 896 apartments formerly occupied and now demolished at the Lafitte Housing Development.

11: Percent of families who have returned to live in Lower Ninth Ward.

20-25: Years that experts estimate it will take to rebuild the City of New Orleans at current pace.

32: Percent of the city's neighborhoods that have less than half as many households as before Katrina.

36: Percent fewer tons of cargo that move through Port of New Orleans since Katrina.

38: Percent fewer hospital beds in New Orleans since Katrina.

41: Number of publicly funded, privately run public charter schools in New Orleans out of total of 79 public schools in the city.

43: Percentage of child care available in New Orleans compared to before Katrina.

46: Percentage increase in rents in New Orleans since Katrina.

56: Percentage fewer inpatient psychiatric beds compared to before Katrina.

80: Percentage fewer public transportation buses now than pre-Katrina.

81: Percentage of homeowners in New Orleans who received insufficient funds to cover the complete costs to repair their homes.

6,982: Number of families still living in FEMA trailers in metro New Orleans area.

8,000: Fewer publicly assisted rental apartments planned for New Orleans by federal government.

10,000: Houses demolished in New Orleans since Katrina.

12,000: Number of homeless in New Orleans even after camps of people living under the bridges have been resettled - double the pre-Katrina number.

14,000: Number of displaced families in New Orleans area whose hurricane rental assistance expires in March 2009.

32,000: Number of children who have not returned to public school in New Orleans, leaving the public school population less than half what it was pre-Katrina.

39,000: Number of Louisiana homeowners who have applied for federal assistance in repair and rebuilding who still have not received any money.

46,000: Fewer African-American voters in New Orleans in 2007 gubernatorial election than in 2003 gubernatorial election.

71,657: Vacant, ruined, unoccupied houses in New Orleans today.

132,000: Fewer people in New Orleans than before Katrina, according to the City of New Orleans current population estimate of 321,000 in New Orleans.

1.9 billion: FEMA dollars scheduled to be available to metro New Orleans for Katrina damages that have not yet been delivered.

2.6 billion: FEMA dollars scheduled to be available to State of Louisiana for Katrina damages that have not yet been delivered.

http://www.truthout.org/article/katrina-pain-index-new-orleans-three-years-later

louis-the-cat · Joined: May 13, 2006 Posts: 264

maybe there's nobody in high office that likes jazz Rolling Eyes

pasquanel · Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 398 Location: Maine

Maybe someone has realized its fools play to rebuild a city that lies below the ambient water table! It's time to wake up New Orleans is sinking!!
It seemed to most observers that the most important task the people of New Orleans faced after the disaster was to celebrate their heathen holiday "Mardi Gras"!
Well they did and the rest of the city lies in ruin! So who's fault is that? I watched the locals watch Katrina approach from their bar stools and do nothing to help themselves. There are times when it's nothing more than the "Law of Natural Selection" at work! Rolling Eyes

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rovingcowboy · Joined: Jan 26, 2003 Posts: 1217

this is just a small example of what the democrats want us to do.? sit in or sh...t and wait for government to hand us everything like good little slaves.

the Republicans want us to get off our butts and find a way to survive our own selves and not expect the rest of the country to Caiter to our every needs wants and wishes like the democrats want us to do.

bush was right in saying he wanted new Orleans rebuilt.
the people needed something to get them going after that kick in the face, but they just wanted to do that one time great holiday now turned into heathen holiday "Mardi Gras"! it has been converted and contorted in to the most sinful thing done in public. which is why i believe god allowed the first hurricane to hit back then to get rid of it.

and i think he seen that did not work and now there is another hurricane on the way to strike it again on Monday or Tuesday.

so why should we have tossed good money in a bad situation.
we had offered them places else where and Texas took the most of them in and they don't want to go back they had enough of that under sea level living.

i said it all those years back when it was hit, that they should fill in that sink hole and build some place else let the gators have it. or put in poll buildings and turn it in to the American version of Venice.