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TechnoratiKatrina Pain Index – New Orleans Three Years Later
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.
.008. Percentage of the 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.
1. Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in percentage of housing vacant or ruined.
1. Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in murders per capita for 2006 and 2007.
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.
17. Percentage increase in wages in the hotel and food industry since before Katrina.
20-25. Years that experts estimate it will take to rebuild the City of New Orleans at current pace.
25. Percent fewer hospitals in metro New Orleans than before Katrina.
32. Percent of the city’s neighborhoods that have fewer than half as many households as they did 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.
40. Percentage fewer special education students attending publicly funded privately run charter schools than traditional public schools.
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 than 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.
300. Number of National Guard troops still in City of New Orleans.
1080. Days National Guard troops have remained in City of New Orleans.
1250. Number of publicly financed vouchers for children to attend private schools in New Orleans in program’s first year.
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 bridge has been resettled — double the pre-Katrina number.
14,000. Number of displaced families in New Orleans area whose hurricane rental assistance expires 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 is was pre-Katrina.
39,000. Number of Louisiana homeowners who have applied for federal assistance in repair and rebuilding who have still not received any money.
45,000. Fewer children enrolled in Medicaid public healthcare in New Orleans than pre-Katrina.
46,000. Fewer African American voters in New Orleans in 2007 gubernatorial election than 2003 gubernatorial election.
55,000. Fewer houses receiving mail than before Katrina.
62,000. Fewer people in New Orleans enrolled in Medicaid public healthcare than pre-Katrina.
71,657. Vacant, ruined, unoccupied houses in New Orleans today.
124,000. Fewer people working in metropolitan New Orleans than pre-Katrina.
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.
214,000. Fewer people in New Orleans than before Katrina, according to the U.S. Census Bureau current population estimate of 239,000 in New Orleans.
453,726. Population of New Orleans before Katrina.
320 million. The number trees destroyed in Louisiana and Mississippi by Katrina.
368 million. Dollar losses of five major metro New Orleans hospitals from Katrina through 2007. In 2008, these hospitals expect another $103 million in losses.
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.
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"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."
How many who have not moved back don't wish to risk another flood? The site for N.O. has serious problems.
So where are the poor and black supposed to "move back to",
___ when their housing is not allowed to be replaced
___ and schools gutted ?
The rich don't seem to have this concern of yours JAKE, why is that ?
___ please provide your sources for how rich people are fearful of returning.
Namaste
First you assert:
"The rich don't seem to have this concern of yours JAKE, why is that ?"
Then you ask:
"please provide your sources for how rich people are fearful of returning"
When of course it was *you*, not I, asserting that the rich have no problem returning. I of course merely wondered, not asserted, how many people don't wish to return due to the likelihood of additional floods.
All of this of course ignores my central thesis that NO is a poor site for a major city for obvious geological reasons. Are you actually going to take issue with that or not?
Same ol' Namaste.
The article itself provides the evidence of the poor being disenfranchised ( did you happen to read it ? ).
___ I clarify the _ i l l o g i c _ of your "innocent" wondering, ____ most likely based upon your artifice of bolstering the elitist grab of valuable property. And your answer is that it's my job to "prove" your hidden agenda ?
Hey, you can go ahead with your not subtly made insinuations, being the "hidden" repuke-lican agenda booster apologist, but we know what you really MEAN.
It was your "plausible" question that implies something "reasonable" behind the MASSIVE exodus of the poor and black, but your PSYOPS-R-US slick BS wont cut diddly-squat here.
Yes, of course there's a risk of flooding ( increased by failure to build proper levees ), but that hardly has perturbed in the least, the underlying reason for this article -- the post-disaster massive public subsidy & welfare to the rich -- while trashing the egalitarian basis of society.
More defeatist disempowering S-O-S smoke, drama, and mirrors -- with nothing of any value to present.
You're showing us nothing new here 'fig-less'.
Mr. Acid wash drenching reality to feel better about ongoing atrocities. Not working.
Namaste
"The article itself provides the evidence of the poor being disenfranchised"
So what? I wasn't commenting on that. I was commenting on the defects of the physical site.
"Yes, of course there's a risk of flooding ( increased by failure to build proper levees ),"
Actually, the risk is *increased* by the building of *any* levees, and the inevitable disaster is only made worse the "better" those levees are.
NO is built on a river delta, an area where the river naturally wants to wander about. Man's folly is to preserve the site of NO by keeping the Mississippi river in it's current course. The headwaters of the Atchafalaya will eventually rob the Mississippi of it's flow, causing the bed of the Atchafalaya to become the new Mississippi. When this happens there will be no reason for NO to exist.
"the underlying reason for this article "
I am uninterested in that as long as the real story, the war of man vs. nature, a war man will surely lose, is altogether ignored. The Katrina flooding was merely one battle of that war.
You actually don't disagree with any of this do you?
No, having attempted to create a land like Holland, is not a national suicide pack.
Similarly for N.O., people can and will do what they want. Do you want to try to stop them ?
What I object to is the deception, complicity, corruption, and aggrandizement of a few very rich -- at the sacrifice hundreds of thousands ( perhaps millions ).
People change zoning laws, to build upon flood plains, what's inevitable is people wanting more ( not disaster ).
We've balanced the literal sword of life and death ( for 30 or more millions ) of ALL of the southwest in MOAB Utah, with massive amounts of deadly radioactive wastes -- on the flood plane of the banks of the Colorado river. Personally, that "100+-year" flood is more likely than N.O, being totally destroyed -- so should we relocate all the people of N.O., San Diego, Las Vegas, and LA -- too [ potentially ] save all of their lives ?
I think not.
Should we constructively implement safety measures ( and margins ) to forestal against nature's vagaries -- of course. That's what allows people to live, where they choose, with some expectation of safety. The purposeful role of gov't is to look at the bigger picture, and guide and protect our people -- abandoning that collective responsibility is an unpardonable crime.
No I do not agree with you, and N.O. exists because of it's people, and that's enough of a reason. Every region has it's natural beauty and deadly natural hazards -- the people have the right to go where they chose.
I can hardly imagine any future ability to even attempt to estimate where and when nature will strike, its severity, and those consequences -- to force people to move --exactly where is going to be "better" ?
Namaste
"No, having attempted to create a land like Holland, "
The analogy to Holland is weak, they are using dikes to claim land from the sea, not to keep a major river in it's course, a river that drains the better part of a whole continent. There is no major river delta there, nor is Holland in the path of regular tropical storms.
"people can and will do what they want. Do you want to try to stop them ?"
You should know me by now. Yes, they should be allowed to vote with their feet and not repopulate flood prone land. I suspect that is exactly what they are doing.
"Should we constructively implement safety measures ( and margins ) to forestal against nature's vagaries -- of course. That's what allows people to live, where they choose, with some expectation of safety. "
Agreed.
"The purposeful role of gov't is to look at the bigger picture, and guide and protect our people -- abandoning that collective responsibility is an unpardonable crime."
Agreed, and they had best take a hard look at NO, there are multiple risks stacked against that city.
"N.O. exists because of it's people, and that's enough of a reason. Every region has it's natural beauty and deadly natural hazards -- the people have the right to go where they chose. "
Yes, and they are choosing other options it seems.
CRUZ CONTROL: The criminal aspect is right on! Years ago as an idealistic college girl I spent time in London, one semester of independent study. For sociology credit I worked at an underground organization called PROP: Preservations of Rights of Prisoners. (Pretty amazing, Ms. Rose here in an office with all these hardened X-cons, trying to make prison life more humane for those inside.) In any case, they had an underground book done to raise funds for their organization, and it was entitled, "WHO GUARDS THE GUARDS?" This is the question for our times, as authoritarians seize power, work the controls against those who have JUST reasons to dissent, and claim they OWN the authority to tell the rest of us what to do, what to value, how to behave, what to read, speak, think, and even HOW to have sex and with whom; that is, when they are not adulterating food, drawing it further and further from its basis in nutrition, and molding it like so many advertisements, into its "substantial equivalent." The free society, free trade, fat free... increasingly the WORD free and the concepts it was devised to represent have also become substantial (false) equivalents... appearances only, ladies and gentlemen, appearances ONLY! Welcome to the new world of plastic wrap... plastic body parts, plastic food, plastic cards passing for transactions of wealth, plastic theme parks, ETC ad nauseum!
R I G H T _ O N ! _____ S I O U X R O S E _____
With the promise _ l e a k i n g _ o u t _ of mere commercialism
_____ to sustain our _ d e e p e r _ human needs _____
we are now being offered and sold on packaged "states of being", sanitized and conducive to further exploitation ( and dulling of our wits and truly splendid nature ).
The ultimate excesses of Naomi Klein's described corporate "branding",
__ we potentially become pseudo-people that desperately seek pseudo-meaning ( for that lost )
__ through popularized official outlets of what's supposed to be important
__ ( Brittany's problems ? ), and
__ what we're supposed to be feeling
__ ( FEAR = war is the answer ? )
What hog-wash for many to only "feel alive", while watching "reality shows", which are contrived to be "better" and more exciting than merely human lives.
They steam-clean OUT the real feelings and human desire
__ to seek FREEDOM, LOVE, PEACE, and GROWTH, and
__ pander to create easily manipulated toddler-aged binary logic mentality.
While so gutting typical Americans, they channel those naturally felt outrages - toward our fabricated "enemies" and self-destructive tendencies, and offer "go shopping" as a cure-all ( for lack of health services ? ).
¿ ______ D O ___ W E ___ N E E D __ T H I S ______ ?
¿ _____ D O E S __ I T __ S U S T A I N __ U S _____ ?
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¿ _____ W H A T __ D O ___ W E ___ V A L U E _____ ?
¿ _____ W H A T __ D O ___ Y O U ___ W A N T _____ ?
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Namaste
I have friends that still blame the people of Katrina for not getting out of the city before the hurricane and the flooding. These are intelligent people and they say they are “good” Christians.
Why do they not do their homework? Are they blind to the truth of poverty? They are blinded because they are comfortable well fed and have the security of their own roof over their heads.
I can hardly wait for the BIG ONE to hit here in California. We may all yet learn the lesson that no help will be coming and it’s everyone for themselves.
To poorly paraphrase Tolkien….
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadow shall spring,
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The hopeless again shall rise….
Wow! Talk about a new world order. When the most powerful country in the world is run by a criminal organization things get very scary indeed.
0. Percentage of respect for this presidency and its priorities.
0. Accountability attributable to the aforementioned.
100. percent agreement with _ S I O U X R O S E _
100. percent upset and disgust for ALL dimo_crap_licans, repuke_licans, & unitard looniary_in_thief
Namaste