Property Value Recovering, Volume Is Not in New Orleans 20 Years After Katrina

20 years after Katrina, Jewish New Orleans is bigger than it was before the hurricane

Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The storm killed almost 1,400 people and caused an estimated $125 billion in damage. Damage to Jewish communal institutions totaled $20 million, including the near-total destruction of Congregation Beth Israel and its seven Torah scrolls. An estimated 80% of Jewish residents’ homes were damaged. Within six months, the area lost about 3,500 Jews — more than a third of its Jewish populatio…

Property value recovering, volume is not in New Orleans 20 years after Katrina

(The Center Square) – Since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, the housing market in New Orleans has fluctuated substantially as families rebuild both their homes and the city.

Housing affordability was a problem in New Orleans before Katrina. That hasn’t changed.

Uneven investment has worsened the city’s housing affordability crisis in the two decades since the storm, housing advocates say.

20 years ago, Katrina hit New Orleans hard; today, Crescent City is rising with faith, hope - Catholic Review

NEW ORLEANS (OSV News) — In late 2005, just two months after Hurricane Katrina, the American Institute of Architects tabbed Boston-based urban planner David Dixon, to organize a national recovery conference with the goal of providing a roadmap for New Orleans out of the chaos unleashed by the most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history. When New Orleans’ federally designed floodwalls collapsed in whack-a-mole fashion under the weight of Ka…

With Katrina, ‘just in case’ wasn’t enough

Twenty years ago today life was grand on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in New Orleans. Then a storm named Katrina swept though and everything changed forever.