RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Amy Liu and Nigel Holmes, August 30, 2008, The New York Times
Amy Liu explores the current state of the New Orleans region upon the third anniversary of hurricane Katrina. Noting the city has recovered most of its population and jobs, she argues that serious challenges remain: lack of public services such as hospitals and child care centers, public transit and a deficient system of levees still loom. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Amy Liu and Allison Plyer, August 2008, The Brookings Institution and the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
Greater New Orleans approaches the end of its third year of recovery from a position of strength having regained the vast majority of its pre-storm population and jobs. But many recovery trends have slowed or stagnated in the past year as tens of thousands of blighted properties, lack of affordable housing for essential service and construction workers, and thin public services continue to plague the city and region. A strong federal-state-local partnership must continue to further the hard work of recovery, which is now well underway. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Walter Kälin, January 14, 2008, The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement Seminar
While it is correct that those displaced by floods, earth-quakes, tsunamis and the like are primarily in need of humanitarian assistance, experience from natural disasters all over the world teaches us that there is a serious risk of human rights violations when the displaced cannot return to their homes or find new ones after some weeks or months. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Amy Liu, September 25, 2007, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Testifying before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Amy Liu provided an overview of the state of recovery of greater New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, Audrey Singer and David Park, September 12, 2007, The Brookings Institution
Using new Census data, we provide the first full picture of who lived in New Orleans and its region after the hurricanes of 2005, and what types of residents moved in, stayed, or remained displaced one year after the storm.
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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William H. Frey, August 28, 2007, The Times Picayune
Writing in the Times-Picayune, William Frey examines the demographics of New Orleans? recovery and warns that the clock is ticking on the return of middle class residents. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Amy Liu and Allison Plyer, August 2007, The Brookings Institution
Two years after Hurricane Katrina assessing the social and economic health as well as public services and infrastructure for the New Orleans region. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Roberta Cohen, November 01, 2006, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Statement by Roberta Cohen at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (11/01/06) Read More
PAST EVENT
Thursday, September 07, 2006
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz, August 04, 2006, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Nearly one year since Hurricane Katrina, Bruce Katz examines how the underlying conditions of New Orleans, especially its neighborhoods of extremely concentrated poverty, served to exacerbate the effects of the storm. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Amy Liu, August 2006, The Brookings Institution
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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz, July 07, 2006, Urban Age Conference
In this presentation, Bruce Katz provides an overview of current patterns of racial and ethnic separation in the United States, using the Chicago, Washington DC, and New Orleans metros as case studies. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Amy Liu, Bruce Katz and Matt Fellowes, July 05, 2006, The New York Times
More than $2 billion in reconstruction aid for the victims of Hurricane Katrina have been lost to ?scams, schemes and stupefying bureaucratic bungles. Read More