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What Prior Disasters Have Taught Housing Advocates About How to Respond to COVID-19
When it comes to helping people maintain or recover their housing, hurricanes and fires aren’t as different from a pandemic as one might think.
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Is It Time to Think About Post-Post-Katrina New Orleans?
Nine years on, New Orleans is a very different place from what it was like in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. What may be more notable, though, as I came […]
Here’s How CDCs can Overcome the People-Based, Place-Based Gap
“Self interest generalized is community interest” — Kenneth Jones, community organizer Throughout my experience in leading NeighborWorks America’s Superstorm Sandy response, two critical aspects have continually been present: people-based and […]
Explore Post-Crisis Rebuilding Beyond the Linear Narrative
Luisa Dantas and Micheal Boedigheimer When I first came to New Orleans with my video camera in the months after Hurricane Katrina, it was already apparent that, just as the […]
Lessons Learned from Harmony Oaks Redevelopment
Lessons learned from the Harmony Oaks redevelopment: You can do good work even in a devastated city, but you have to build an alternate set of systems until the regular […]
Where’s the Map for Social Inequity?
I spent the day at a workshop on July 9 called, “Post-Sandy: The Effect on the Urban,” held at New Jersey Institute of Technology College of Architecture. This rare meeting […]
Recovery from the Grassroots
An interesting new planning document by the Sandy Regional Assembly was just released by a cross-section of grassroots groups, most based in New York City, on how to prevent the […]
CDFIs Speed Up Sandy Recovery
When disasters strike, our first responders ensure that emergency resources get to those in need. But when the immediate danger has passed, communities need a different kind of support. […]
An Important Piece of the Puzzle: A Response to “Some of Us Shall Not Be Moved”
In her recent Shelterforce online review of We Shall Not Be Moved, my book about post-Katrina recovery efforts in five New Orleans neighborhoods, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs argues that the book presents “a […]
Disaster and Recovery – Part II
Shortly after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast, I was dispatched to New Orleans by the corporate foundation that I worked for to figure out how to deploy […]
“Doing What They Do Best”: Lessons of Occupy Sandy
Many people have passed around the article “Occupy Sandy Emerges as Relief Organization of the 21st Century,” in the weeks since hurricane Sandy. It's a good read and worth some […]
Writing About Recovery
Watching the scenes of devastation coming out of New York City and New Jersey from Hurricane Sandy, it’s hard not to think again of Katrina (despite their many differences, certainly) […]
Disaster and Recovery
Dear Reader, I’m writing to you from Man About Town’s Brooklyn redoubt – where we have been spared from the very worst of hurricane Sandy. We never flooded, and we […]