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Post-Katrina Home Insurance Hard to Get

Nine months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed homes in Mississippi and Louisiana, real estate agents and residents of the area are having big problems obtaining homeowners insurance.

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  • LEE HOCHBERG, NewsHour Correspondent:

    Last week, a star-studded jazz festival at the New Orleans fairgrounds, with music legends Dr. John, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen tried to send the message that New Orleans is back on its feet.

    But elsewhere in town, the obstacles the city faces are acutely clear: Miles of houses sit gutted and empty, some still strewn on their sides in the low-income Ninth Ward, others like rows of empty doll houses in upscale Lakeview. Little is being done to restore them.