Pain Index 2008

Here are some facts highlighting the situation in the Gulf Coast as of 2008.

  • 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
  • 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: .008
  • Number of families still living in FEMA trailers in metro New Orleans area: 6,982.
  • Number of houses demolished in New Orleans since Katrina: 10,000.
  • Number of homeless in New Orleans even after camps of people living under the bridge has been resettled — double the pre-Katrina number: 12,000.
  • Number of displaced families in New Orleans area whose hurricane rental assistance expires March 2009: 14,000.
  • 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: 32,000.
  • Number of Louisiana homeowners who have applied for federal assistance in repair and rebuilding who have still not received any money: 39,000.
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