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The New Orleans Index
Tracking the Recovery of New Orleans and the Metro Area
Allison Plyer, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
Amy Liu, Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings
Released: July 30, 2009
ShareAugust 2009 - Though New Orleans has been somewhat shielded from the recession due to substantial rebuilding activity, four years after Katrina the region still faces major challenges due to blight, unaffordable housing, and vulnerable flood protection. New federal leadership must commit and sustain its partnership with state and local leaders by delivering on key milestones in innovation, infrastructure, human capital, and sustainable communities to help greater New Orleans move past “disaster recovery” and boldly build a more prosperous future.
Table of Contents
Summary of Findings- Overview
- Highlights
- Population
- Economy
- Housing
- Infrastructure
- Recovery of New Orleans by Neighborhood
- Population Recovery
- Recent Population Shifts
- Vacant/Unoccupied Residential Addresses
- Residential Demolitions
- Road Home Residential Properties Sold to State
- Road Home Stay and Rebuild
Data Tables- Population Recovery
- Housing Market
- Rebuilding Damaged Housing Stock
- Fiscal and Economic Conditions
- Quality and Availability of Basic Public Services
- Recovery of New Orleans by Neighborhood
About the New Orleans Index
This fourth anniversary edition of the New Orleans Index examines the social and economic recovery of the New Orleans metro area, four years after Hurricane Katrina and the related levee failures. Relying on more than fifty indicators, we examine recovery progress to date for the city and its surrounding metro area which includes Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St. Tammany parishes. Key findings are highlighted in “at–a–glance” graphic representations.
For the first time, we have added neighborhood-level indicators of population recovery for the City of New Orleans (Orleans Parish). Readers seeking even more detail can visit the GNOCDC.org web site for interactive maps and more detailed analysis. And we continue to publish several indicators of recovery for New Orleans’ 13 planning districts, which were the geographic areas for which specific plans were developed when New Orleanians gathered in late 2006 to develop the Unified New Orleans Plan.
