Katrinaroadhome.org
Producer/reporter June Cross and her team continue their reporting on this story on this affiliated site. Explore the controversy over post-Katrina insurance payouts, watch outtakes from the film, find out how federal recovery money has been spent and, using an interactive map, track the progress of the Road Home housing assistance program.
Producer/reporter June Cross and her team continue their reporting on this story on this affiliated site. Explore the controversy over post-Katrina insurance payouts, watch outtakes from the film, find out how federal recovery money has been spent and, using an interactive map, track the progress of the Road Home housing assistance program.
FRONTLINE's The Storm
Watch online our 2005 report produced weeks after Hurricane Katrina. The film features some dramatic footage, while the site has a timeline of the crucial days just before and after Katrina's devastating landfall, plus interviews with Mayor Ray Nagin, then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco, former FEMA Director Michael Brown and others.
Watch online our 2005 report produced weeks after Hurricane Katrina. The film features some dramatic footage, while the site has a timeline of the crucial days just before and after Katrina's devastating landfall, plus interviews with Mayor Ray Nagin, then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco, former FEMA Director Michael Brown and others.
Government Web Sites
President Bush Discusses Hurricane Relief in Address to the Nation
The full transcript of President Bush's remarks delivered at Jackson Square in New Orleans, where he pledged, "Throughout the area hit by the hurricane, we will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives." (Sept. 15, 2005)
The full transcript of President Bush's remarks delivered at Jackson Square in New Orleans, where he pledged, "Throughout the area hit by the hurricane, we will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives." (Sept. 15, 2005)
FEMA: Louisiana Hurricane Katrina
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Katrina page is updated regularly with the agency's latest press releases. It also features a slideshow on FEMA's recovery efforts.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Katrina page is updated regularly with the agency's latest press releases. It also features a slideshow on FEMA's recovery efforts.
GAO Reports on Hurricane Katrina
This page collects the Government Accountability Agency's reports on disaster preparedness, response and reconstruction since 2006, including this December 2006 report on "fraud, waste and abuse" in the relief effort and this December 2008 report on problems with FEMA's public assistance programs.
This page collects the Government Accountability Agency's reports on disaster preparedness, response and reconstruction since 2006, including this December 2006 report on "fraud, waste and abuse" in the relief effort and this December 2008 report on problems with FEMA's public assistance programs.
The Road Home
The official site for Louisiana's Road Home housing assisance program contains information for homeowners and owners of rental properties, as well as answers to frequently asked questions and responses to "myths" about the program.
The official site for Louisiana's Road Home housing assisance program contains information for homeowners and owners of rental properties, as well as answers to frequently asked questions and responses to "myths" about the program.
Louisiana Recovery Authority
The state agency's official site includes updates on its activities, reports and links to other government resources.
The state agency's official site includes updates on its activities, reports and links to other government resources.
ICF International
The corporate Web site of the professional services firm hired to administer the Road Home program features answers to frequently asked questions about the Road Home, along with press releases responding to media criticism of the company's performance.
The corporate Web site of the professional services firm hired to administer the Road Home program features answers to frequently asked questions about the Road Home, along with press releases responding to media criticism of the company's performance.
Articles and Reports
The New Orleans Times-Picayune
The newspaper won a Pulitzer for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, which is archived here. View an interactive map of the flooding and an audio slideshow with Herbert Gettridge. More recently, the paper examined whether New Orleans is a shrinking city and how the city should downsize.
The newspaper won a Pulitzer for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, which is archived here. View an interactive map of the flooding and an audio slideshow with Herbert Gettridge. More recently, the paper examined whether New Orleans is a shrinking city and how the city should downsize.
Post-Katrina Promises Unfulfilled
Five months after Katrina, the Washington Post sized up the federal response and found it lacking. "While the administration can claim some clear progress, Bush's ringing call from New Orleans's Jackson Square on Sept. 15 to 'do what it takes' to make the city rise from the waters has not been matched by action, critics at multiple levels of government say, resulting in a record that is largely incomplete." See also the Post's special report on the 2005 Hurricane Season. (Jan. 28, 2006)
Five months after Katrina, the Washington Post sized up the federal response and found it lacking. "While the administration can claim some clear progress, Bush's ringing call from New Orleans's Jackson Square on Sept. 15 to 'do what it takes' to make the city rise from the waters has not been matched by action, critics at multiple levels of government say, resulting in a record that is largely incomplete." See also the Post's special report on the 2005 Hurricane Season. (Jan. 28, 2006)
The Lost Year
One year after Katrina, this New Yorker portrait of the Lower Ninth Ward looks at how corporate and government redevelopment plans run up against residents' desires to preserve their homes. Reporter Dan Baum quotes one onlooker: "It's absolutely criminal -- people looking out a downtown hotel window, making statements about neighborhoods they never visited much to begin with, saying nothing can be done and nobody wants to come back." (Aug. 21, 2006)
One year after Katrina, this New Yorker portrait of the Lower Ninth Ward looks at how corporate and government redevelopment plans run up against residents' desires to preserve their homes. Reporter Dan Baum quotes one onlooker: "It's absolutely criminal -- people looking out a downtown hotel window, making statements about neighborhoods they never visited much to begin with, saying nothing can be done and nobody wants to come back." (Aug. 21, 2006)
Reading. Writing. Resurrection.
The Atlantic's Amy Waldman looks at the changes to New Orleans' troubled public schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But, Waldman asks, "Can you rebuild a school system when you haven't decided whether to rebuild a city?" (January/February 2007)
The Atlantic's Amy Waldman looks at the changes to New Orleans' troubled public schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But, Waldman asks, "Can you rebuild a school system when you haven't decided whether to rebuild a city?" (January/February 2007)
Video: Resurrecting New Orleans
CNN's Anderson Cooper interviewed Herbert Gettridge about his work in rebuilding his home in the Lower Ninth Ward. (Jan. 12, 2007)
CNN's Anderson Cooper interviewed Herbert Gettridge about his work in rebuilding his home in the Lower Ninth Ward. (Jan. 12, 2007)
New Orleans' Wrecking Ball Levels Healthy Homes
NPR's All Things Considered profiles a pastor whose church met the same fate as Mr. Gettridge's house on N. Dorgenois St. in the Lower Ninth Ward: both were demolished by the city without notice. For more NPR reporting on rebuilding New Orleans, visit their regularly updated "Katrina & Recovery" page. (Jan. 22, 2008)
NPR's All Things Considered profiles a pastor whose church met the same fate as Mr. Gettridge's house on N. Dorgenois St. in the Lower Ninth Ward: both were demolished by the city without notice. For more NPR reporting on rebuilding New Orleans, visit their regularly updated "Katrina & Recovery" page. (Jan. 22, 2008)
Video: In New Orleans, One School Begins, Another Ends
In this New York Times video feature, four former students of Lawless High School -- featured in The Old Man and the Storm -- tour the ruins. The school was demolished in June 2008. The Times has collected its coverage of Hurricane Katrina here, ranging from an article about the plasterers union of which Mr. Gettridge was a member to a more recent story about a planned hospital and the homeowners who would be displaced by it.
In this New York Times video feature, four former students of Lawless High School -- featured in The Old Man and the Storm -- tour the ruins. The school was demolished in June 2008. The Times has collected its coverage of Hurricane Katrina here, ranging from an article about the plasterers union of which Mr. Gettridge was a member to a more recent story about a planned hospital and the homeowners who would be displaced by it.
The New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition: Three Years After Katrina
The latest periodic report from the Brookings Institution on New Orleans' recovery. The executive summary (PDF file) sees modest progress being made in population and jobs, but blight and infrastructure problems continue. The site has an archive of its previous indices, dating back to January 2006.
The latest periodic report from the Brookings Institution on New Orleans' recovery. The executive summary (PDF file) sees modest progress being made in population and jobs, but blight and infrastructure problems continue. The site has an archive of its previous indices, dating back to January 2006.
Audio: New Orleans Three Years After
Public Radio's Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland traveled to New Orleans in the summer of 2008 to look at its recovery three years on. She finds there's a lot of reconstruction yet to be done.
Public Radio's Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland traveled to New Orleans in the summer of 2008 to look at its recovery three years on. She finds there's a lot of reconstruction yet to be done.
Katrina Kids: Sickest Ever
Newsweek reports on a November 2008 study that found children who stayed longest in FEMA trailer parks suffer from high rates of anemia and respiratory ailments. As early as August 2006, studies found high levels of mental illness among Katrina survivors and too few psychiatric services to treat the afflicted.
Newsweek reports on a November 2008 study that found children who stayed longest in FEMA trailer parks suffer from high rates of anemia and respiratory ailments. As early as August 2006, studies found high levels of mental illness among Katrina survivors and too few psychiatric services to treat the afflicted.
Political Corruption Smackdown
Louisiana's reputation for corruption was a major factor in the federal government's caution in allocating funds after Katrina. In the wake of the scandal surrounding Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attempts to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder, Slate editor Jacob Weisberg offered this amusing comparison of the two states' checkered pasts. (Dec. 13, 2008)
Louisiana's reputation for corruption was a major factor in the federal government's caution in allocating funds after Katrina. In the wake of the scandal surrounding Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attempts to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder, Slate editor Jacob Weisberg offered this amusing comparison of the two states' checkered pasts. (Dec. 13, 2008)
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