The Facts

Here are some facts that highlight the situation in the Gulf Coast.

  • 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 hospitals in New Orleans providing in-patient mental health care as of September 2009 despite post-Katrina increases in suicides and mental health problems: 0
  • Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in murders per capita for 2008. (See “FBI National Crime, Crime in the United States, Preliminary Annual Crime Report): 1
  • Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in percentage of vacant residences: 1.
  • Percent of 134,000 FEMA trailers in which Katrina and Rita storm survivors were housed after the storms which are estimated by federal government to have had formaldehyde problems: 33.
  • Percent of child care facilities re-opened in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina: 35.
  • Percent increase of demand in 2009 at emergency food programs in Orleans and surrounding parishes, “an increase pinned on the swelling ranks of under-employed and rising food, housing, and fuel costs.”: 35.
  • Ranking of Louisiana among states for overall healthcare: 50.
  • Percent increase in rents in New Orleans since Katrina. 52.
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  • Percent of federal rebuilding money allocated to New Orleans that has actually been received: 52
  • Percent of children in New Orleans public schools who attend public charter schools: 60
  • Percent of the 600 New Orleans residents who will be displaced by proposed new hospital complex who are people of color: 88
  • Number of units which will be public housing eligible in the new St. Bernard area after demolition and rebuilding. St. Bernard was constructed with 1,400 public housing apartments. Only a small percentage of the 4,000 families in public housing in New Orleans before Katrina will be allowed to live in the new housing being constructed on the site where their apartments were demolished: 160

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