[News] Katrina, the Pain Index

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http://www.counterpunch.org/quigley08252008.html

August 25, 2008


46,000 Fewer Black Voters in New Orleans ...


Katrina, the Pain Index

By BILL QUIGLEY

0.  Number of renters in Louisiana who have 
received financial assistance from the $10 
billion federal post-Katrina rebuilding program 
Road Home Community Development Block Grant – compared to 116,708 homeowners.

0.  Number of apartments currently being built to 
replace the 963 public housing apartments 
formerly occupied and now demolished at the St. Bernard Housing Development.

0.  Amount of data available to evaluate 
performance of publicly financed privately run 
charter schools in New Orleans in 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years.

.008.  Percentage of the rental homes that were 
supposed to be repaired and occupied by August 
2008 which were actually completed and occupied – 
a total of 82 finished out of 10,000 projected.

1.  Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in 
percentage of housing vacant or ruined.

1.  Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in 
murders per capita for 2006 and 2007.

4.  Number of the 13 City of New Orleans Planning 
Districts that are at the same risk of flooding as they were before Katrina.

10.  Number of apartments being rehabbed so far 
to replace the 896 apartments formerly occupied 
and now demolished at the Lafitte Housing Development.

11.  Percent of families who have returned to live in Lower Ninth Ward.

17.  Percentage increase in wages in the hotel 
and food industry since before Katrina.

20-25. Years that experts estimate it will take 
to rebuild the City of New Orleans at current pace.

25.  Percent fewer hospitals in metro New Orleans than before Katrina.

32.  Percent of the city’s neighborhoods that 
have fewer than half as many households as they did before Katrina.

36.  Percent fewer tons of cargo that move 
through Port of New Orleans since Katrina.

38.  Percent fewer hospital beds in New Orleans since Katrina.

40.  Percentage fewer special education students 
attending publicly funded privately run charter 
schools than traditional public schools.

41.  Number of publicly funded privately run 
public charter schools in New Orleans out of 
total of 79 public schools in the city.

43.  Percentage of child care available in New 
Orleans compared to before Katrina.

46.  Percentage increase in rents in New Orleans since Katrina.

56.  Percentage fewer inpatient psychiatric beds than before Katrina.

80.  Percentage fewer public transportation buses now than pre-Katrina.

81.  Percentage of homeowners in New Orleans who 
received insufficient funds to cover the complete costs to repair their homes.

300.  Number of National Guard troops still in City of New Orleans.

1080.  Days National Guard troops have remained in City of New Orleans.

1250.  Number of publicly financed vouchers for 
children to attend private schools in New Orleans in program’s first year.

6,982. Number of families still living in FEMA 
trailers in metro New Orleans area.

8,000. Fewer publicly assisted rental apartments 
planned for New Orleans by federal government.

10,000. Houses demolished in New Orleans since Katrina.

12,000. Number of homeless in New Orleans even 
after camps of people living under the bridge has 
been resettled - double the pre-Katrina number.

14,000. Number of displaced families in New 
Orleans area whose hurricane rental assistance expires March 2009.

32,000. Number of children who have not returned 
to public school in New Orleans, leaving the 
public school population less than half what is was pre-Katrina.

39,000. Number of Louisiana homeowners who have 
applied for federal assistance in repair and 
rebuilding who have still not received any money.

45,000. Fewer children enrolled in Medicaid 
public healthcare in New Orleans than pre-Katrina.

46,000. Fewer African American voters in New 
Orleans in 2007 gubernatorial election than 2003 gubernatorial election.

55,000. Fewer houses receiving mail than before Katrina.

62,000. Fewer people in New Orleans enrolled in 
Medicaid public healthcare than pre-Katrina.

71,657. Vacant, ruined, unoccupied houses in New Orleans today.

124,000. Fewer people working in metropolitan New Orleans than pre-Katrina.

132,000. Fewer people in New Orleans than before 
Katrina, according to the City of New Orleans 
current population estimate of 321,000 in New Orleans.

214,000. Fewer people in New Orleans than before 
Katrina, according to the U.S. Census Bureau 
current population estimate of 239,000 in New Orleans.

453,726. Population of New Orleans before Katrina.

320 million. The number trees destroyed in 
Louisiana and Mississippi by Katrina.

368 million.  Dollar losses of five major metro 
New Orleans hospitals from Katrina through 
2007.  In 2008, these hospitals expect another $103 million in losses.

1.9 billion.  FEMA dollars scheduled to be 
available to metro New Orleans for Katrina 
damages that have not yet been delivered.

2.6 billion.  FEMA dollars scheduled to be 
available to State of Louisiana for Katrina 
damages that have not yet been delivered.

Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law 
professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He’s 
a regular contributor to CounterPunch, and can be 
reached at 
<mailto:Quigley77 at gmail.com>Quigley77 at gmail.com 
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