ABSTRACT

Introduction .................................................................................................... 270 Housing Recovery after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans .................. 272

Housing Damage and Population Recovery by Neighborhoods ....... 272 Land Use Control by Local Government ............................................... 275 Road Home Program by State Government .......................................... 275 Housing Reconstruction Survey ............................................................. 277 Gap of Housing Reconstruction in Three Neighborhoods.................. 279 Gentrified or Thinly Populated ............................................................... 284 What Caused the Neighborhood Gap in Housing Reconstruction and Property Sales? ................................................................................... 286 Checkerboard Housing Recovery ........................................................... 287 Clustered Housing Recovery by Community Development Organization .............................................................................................. 288

The catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina presented an enormous challenge of rebuilding along the Gulf Coast. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge washed over the levees and breached the floodwalls of New Orleans. Water stood in more than 80% of the city for nearly 2 weeks, and 180,000 housing units were severely damaged or destroyed [1] (Table 12.1). Katrina resulted in the largest U.S. displacement of residents throughout the country. There is one other disaster very similar to this situation: the 9.0 magnitude Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, which set off a devastating tsunami that sent walls of water washing over coastal cities in the northern part of Japan.