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In total, it is estimated that over a million people were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. [9] In 2006, 200,000 people called New Orleans home, a significant drop from the population of nearly half a million before Katrina. [10] [11] Of the rest of those who were displaced, about 40% moved to Texas and the rest went farther to either New York ...
Hurricane Katrina forced about 800,000 people to move, which was the greatest number of displaced people in the country since the Dust Bowl. The United States federal government spent $110.6 billion in relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts, including $16 billion toward rebuilding houses, which was the nation's largest ever housing recovery ...
It's not just a lack of preparedness. I think the easy answer is to say that these are poor people and black people and so the government doesn't give a damn ... there might be some truth to that. But I think we've got to see this as a serious problem of the long-term neglect of an environmental system on which our nation depends." [109]
August 29 marks the 10-year anniversary of the day that Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, and since then, New Orleans and surrounding areas have never been the same.
Hurricane Katrina was the first natural disaster in the United States in which the American Red Cross used its "Safe and Well" family location website. [162] [163] Direct Relief provided a major response in the Gulf states so health providers could treat the local patients and evacuees.
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Following Katrina, many said that the hurricane had a greater impact on Black and less economically privileged people than it had on predominantly white and wealthier people. “The city’s remarkable recovery has, to a troubling degree, left behind the African-Americans who still make up the majority of its population,” according to ...
Hurricane Katrina over the Gulf of Mexico on August 28, 2005, one day before landfall. Hurricane Katrina struck the United States on August 29, 2005, causing over a thousand deaths and extreme property damage, particularly in New Orleans. The incident affected numerous areas of governance, including disaster preparedness and environmental policy.