A Long Way to Go for New Orleans
Rebuilding in New Orleans has been agonizingly slow, as a range of statistics collected by researchers at the Brookings Institution demonstrates.
Before Katrina |
6 Months after Katrina |
10 Months after Katrina |
|
Unemployment (percent) – (M) |
5.8 |
4.3 |
6.4 |
Labor Force Displaced – (M) |
-- |
258,000 |
309,000 |
Occupied Emergency Trailers & Mobile Homes |
-- |
83,500 |
113,664 |
Households Receiving Rental Assistance |
-- |
645,000 |
678,350 |
Hospitals Open (percent) -- (C) |
100 |
45 |
50 |
Public Schools Open (percent) -- (C) |
100 |
15 |
18 |
Child Care Centers Open (percent) -- (C) |
100 |
14 |
21 |
Operational Public Buses (percent) -- (C) |
100 |
17 |
17 |
Homes with Electricity (percent) -- (C) |
100 |
50 |
60 |
Public Libraries Open (percent) -- (C) |
100 |
38 |
46 |
The numbers are either for the city in a strict sense (C) or for the larger metropolitan area (M). For trailers and rental assistance, the numbers are for all the displaced currently living anywhere in the United States.
Matt Fellowes, Bruce Katz, Amy Liu, and Nigel Holmes, “The State of New Orleans: An Update,” New York Times, 5 July 2006.