Feb 17, 2011
SIGNS OF LIFE; UNITY New Orleans blog
Outreach workers are still combing abandoned buildings and the broken streets of New Orleans for the most vulnerable victims of Hurricane Katrina, five years after the levees broke. The rate of homelessness in New Orleans has nearly doubled since Kartrina, from 6,300 to 11,500 now. Many are living in greater New Orleans’ 55,000 abandoned buildings as a result of the loss of 51,000 rental units in the nation’s largest housing disaster.
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