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Another Day in the Lower Ninth Ward

[…] in the Lower Ninth Ward, one of the New Orleans neighborhoods most devastated by Hurricane Katrina. He is living in one of the trailers, a cramped space filled to the […]

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Working in Partnership

[Editorial note: In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Rooflines has chosen to share an essay from the Shelterforce archives. Co-written by Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Jr. and John […]

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A Housing Renaissance?

Charlotte McGee, right, a former FEMA trailer resident and president of Katrina Rebirth Promise Land, stands in front of a modular home in Denham Springs similar to the type the […]

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Some of Us Shall Not Be Moved

This collection of moving accounts of post-Katrina neighborhood recovery lacks both solid political and structural context and marignalized viewpoints.

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Who You Gonna Call?

[…] into the Gulf Coast on Labor Day weekend, almost three years to the day that Katrina brought its misery to New Orleans, carrying powerful memories of how thoroughly our federal […]

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Detours on the Road Home

[…] with polio when he was a child, and he now has Alzheimer’s disease. Before Hurricane Katrina struck, Darrial put Clarence on a plane to safety and drove out of the […]

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Monkey See, Monkey Do

[…] felt by most Americans in seeing the raw poverty among New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina. In an open society, nobody who had been watching television or reading newspapers should […]

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Building Alliances at All Levels

[…] chart that course, we must bear in mind several broad but relevant issues that Hurricane Katrina called to the forefront. The first is globalization and its dramatic impact on the […]