Half of New Orleans' Poor Permanently Displaced: Failure or Success?
03/23/2008 18:45
Half of New Orleans' Poor Permanently Displaced:
Failure or Success?
NNPA from the Louisiana Weekly, News Report, Bill Quigley, Posted: Mar 23, 2008
NEW ORLEANS (NNPA) - Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in affordable housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to return home.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) reports that Medicaid, medical assistance for aged, blind, disabled and low-wage working families is down 46 percent from pre-Katrina levels. DHH reports that before Hurricane Katrina there were 134,249 people in New Orleans on Medicaid.
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NNPA from the Louisiana Weekly, News Report, Bill Quigley, Posted: Mar 23, 2008
NEW ORLEANS (NNPA) - Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in affordable housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to return home.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) reports that Medicaid, medical assistance for aged, blind, disabled and low-wage working families is down 46 percent from pre-Katrina levels. DHH reports that before Hurricane Katrina there were 134,249 people in New Orleans on Medicaid.
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Homeless still feeling Katrina's wrath
03/17/2008 18:43
NEW
ORLEANS — The homeless population of New Orleans
since Hurricane Katrina has reached unprecedented
levels for a U.S. city: one in 25 residents.
An estimated 12,000 homeless accounts for 4% of New Orleans' estimated population of 302,000, according to the homeless advocacy group UNITY of Greater New Orleans. The number is nearly double the pre-Katrina homeless count, the group says. Read More...
An estimated 12,000 homeless accounts for 4% of New Orleans' estimated population of 302,000, according to the homeless advocacy group UNITY of Greater New Orleans. The number is nearly double the pre-Katrina homeless count, the group says. Read More...