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Mar 28, 2008
Louisiana
Homeless Still Feel Katrina's Wrath
Published by USA Today
Cedric Allen once wrestled with his crack addiction in an apartment he shared with his fiancée or in a home surrounded by his four grown daughters.
Today, Allen, 48, struggles with the same addiction alone in a camping tent under an interstate overpass in downtown New Orleans. His daughters and fiancée are gone, displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Mar 17, 2008
Louisiana
New Orleans Homeless Rate Soars to 1 in 25
Published by AHN Media
The percentage of homeless people in New Orleans has nearly doubled since Hurricane Katrina and is now four times the rate for the rest of the country. About 12,000 people or 4 percent of the city's population is homeless, versus a national rate of 1 percent.
Mar 7, 2008
Louisiana
Tenants in Poll Don't Want Old Units
Published by Times-Picayune
While more than 70 percent of New Orleans' displaced public housing residents want to return to the city, most of those surveyed recently by the University of Texas at Arlington said they have no desire to return to New Orleans' public housing complexes.
Mar 5, 2008
Louisiana
Mental Health Crisis Plagues New Orleans
Published by USA Today
Bernel Johnson showed all the signs.
He was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as aggressive, homeless and schizophrenic. He was kicked out of a Salvation Army homeless shelter late last year for holding a fork to a fellow resident's throat. On Jan. 4, Johnson was committed to a psychiatric facility for causing a disturbance at a bank. He was released and, a few weeks later, attacked New Orleans police officer Nicola Cotton, 24, in a parking lot.
Mar 1, 2008
Louisiana
U.N. Experts Weigh in on Katrina Housing
Published by U.S.A. Today
United Nations experts weighed in Thursday on the debate over public housing in New Orleans, accusing the U.S. federal government and local authorities of forcing predominantly black residents into homelessness.
Feb 27, 2008
Feb 20, 2008
Louisiana
Those in Tent City are Shelter Bound
Published by The Times-Picayune
Before month's end, City Hall officials say, police and social workers will dismantle the tent city downtown and move its homeless denizens to a huge tent in Central City, where they will sleep in triple-decker bunks and must stay clean of drugs and booze.
Feb 13, 2008
Jan 23, 2008
Dec 25, 2007
Louisiana
The Right Answer In New Orleans
Published by New York Times
New Orleans will never recover economically unless it attracts a work force large enough to drive the industries upon which the city has historically depended for its livelihood. Low-wage workers, in particular, are unlikely to return until the tens of thousands of rental houses and apartments that were destroyed by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina are replaced.
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Info on nonprofits working with populations affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and resources to grantmakers and donors who are considering funding programs that address the needs of those affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
To assist in the provision of affordable housing to low-income families affected by Hurricane Katrina.
"Philanthropy has the opportunity to make a huge difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people as it responds to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina."
-- George D. Penick
Former President, Foundation for the Mid South
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