New Orleans:
There's a Crime Going On!
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Saint Bernard Parish, to the west of New Orleans,
was a racially mixed neighborhood.
The median income was about $36,000, with a 4% unemployment rate.
Almost 80% of the homes were owner-occupied.
This is Saint Bernard Parish after Katrina.
100% of the houses were declared uninhabitable.
The St. Bernard Project uses volunteer labor to help rebuild, house by house. This is a small organization, created and staffed by some real American heroes. I urge you to support them.
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These pictures are mostly from the Lower Ninth ward,
and were taken
in March of 2007 -- more than 1 1/2 years after Katrina.
Almost nothing has happened,
and virtually all of the reconstruction has been
done by homeowners or volunteers.
In March of 2007 we went with a group of volunteers to work on some houses. We were there for a week of hard work. It was both rewarding and frustrating. |
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