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Texas avoided any direct damage from Hurricane Katrina, but the state took in an estimated 220,000 people who sought refuge from Louisiana. On August 31, the Harris County, Texas Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the State of Louisiana came to an agreement to allow at least 25,000 evacuees from New Orleans, especially those who were sheltered in the Louisiana ...
Sweeps to displace homeless people in New Orleans began this week, local media reported. An encampment of roughly 75 people were moved a couple blocks away. Louisiana State Police (LSP), in ...
Critics argue the relocations to the center are a Band-Aid solution. In a letter sent to the governor from 12 community organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana ...
The number of homeless people living in New Orleans doubled to 12,000 people between the hurricane and mid-2007. [20] With a post-Katrina population of 300,000 people, this meant that 1 in 25 people were homeless, an extremely high number and nearly three times that of any other US city. [ 21 ]
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, Ohio, or even California.
As a result of the damage inflicted by Katrina, over one million people were internally displaced. One month after the disaster, over 600,000 remained displaced. Immediately following the disaster, New Orleans lost approximately half of its population, with many residents displaced to cities such as Houston, Dallas, Baton Rouge, and Atlanta.
Displaced New Orleans residents at an Interstate 10 exit. August 31, 2005. African-American leaders and others have expressed outrage at what they see as the apparent neglect of the poor and/or black residents of the affected region. [101] Two-thirds of the residents of New Orleans are black, primarily attributed to decades of white flight.
In February 2024, New Orleans cleared more than 70 people from an encampment under the bridge at Orleans and Claiborne streets. [108] In October 2024, Governor Jeff Landry ordered Louisiana State Police to sweep of an encampment of about 75 people beneath an underpass in downtown New Orleans ahead of three sold out Taylor Swift concerts. People ...