Lessons from the Private Sector and Coast Guard During Katrina

[davidbfpo]

Thread re-opened after a "lurker" recommended this 2015 article 'The Katrina Disaster and the Politics of Disavowal' by an academic from New Orleans:http://www.newclearvision.com/2015/0...nst-resilence/

This figure alone suggests the recovery has not happened:

In fact, as a recent report shows, “New Orleans is now at about 78 percent of its population before the storm” and the recent growth rate has been 1.4%.Aggregating the population with surrounding parishes is a transparent ploy to confuse the public. Many have not come back to New Orleans because of lack of opportunities here and because the dominant model of development has created obstacles to their return. To make them disappear through fake statistics is an outrage. Landrieu obviously didn’t grasp the ludicrous but painful irony of calling the post-Katrina era, in which almost a quarter of the population did not return, “the best come-back story” in U.S. history!