The Long-Term Recovery of New Orleans’ Population After Hurricane Katrina

Fussell, Elizabeth

doi:10.1177/0002764215591181

Cited by 201Earthquake and Disaster Impact StudiesDisaster Management and ResilienceClimate Change, Adaptation, Migration

The Long-Term Recovery of New Orleans’ Population After Hurricane Katrina

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Fussell, Elizabeth·2015·American Behavioral Scientist

DOI 10.1177/0002764215591181PMC PMC4752119

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Hurricane Katrina created a catastrophe in the City of New Orleans when the storm surge caused the levee system to fail on August 29, 2005. The destruction of housing displaced hundreds of thousands of residents for varying lengths of time, often permanently. It also revealed gaps in our knowledge of how population is recovered after a disaster causes widespread destruction of urban infrastructure and housing. In this article, I identify social, spatial, and temporal explanatory frameworks for housing and population recovery and use them to review research findings on mobility—both evacuation and migration—after Hurricane Katrina. The review reveals a need for a comprehensive social, spatial, and temporal framework for explaining inequality in population displacement and recovery.

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Old government maps by the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) outlined neighborhoods in more than 200 U.S. cities and rated them for inclusion in government home mortgage and lending programs.
“Old government maps by the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) outlined neighborhoods in more than 200 U.S. cities and rated them for inclusion in government home mortgage and lending programs.139,140”
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The section “Unequal Resources and Migration Outcomes: Return or Resettle?” discusses post-Katrina neighborhood recovery and rebuilding grants, not historical mortgage maps. Searches of our copy for HOLC maps, ratings, redlining, and lending found no passage addressing the claimed maps or the figure of more than 200 cities; page numbers were unavailable. (LLM, conf=0.74)
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The HOLC color-coded maps rated neighborhoods from least risky to most risky ('A' through 'D'), and the 'D' areas (red) were neighborhoods where Black residents lived.
“These color-coded maps rated (and marked) neighborhoods from least risky to most risky-“A” through “D”; the “D” areas (red) were neighborhoods where Black residents lived.”
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The passages on displacement and neighborhood recovery discuss racial and socioeconomic differences in New Orleans, but not HOLC maps. Searches for HOLC color codes and residential-security map grades found no passage addressing A–D ratings or the claim about red-rated neighborhoods. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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Redlining resulted in Black homeowners being unable to qualify for home loans backed by government insurance programs, effectively zoning out Black neighborhoods from investment.
“The result was that Black homeowners could not qualify for home loans that were backed by government insurance programs, essentially zoning out Black neighborhoods from investment.139,140”
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In “Unequal Resources and Migration Outcomes: Return or Resettle?” (page unavailable), the paper discusses post-Katrina rebuilding grants and lower grant amounts in neighborhoods with lower property values. Searches for redlining and government-insured home loans found no passage saying Black homeowners could not qualify for those loans or that this excluded Black neighborhoods from investment. (LLM, conf=0.75)
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Authors: Fussell, E.
Affiliations: Brown University (US)
Corresponding author: Fussell, Elizabeth
ORCID: Fussell, Elizabeth
Venue: American Behavioral Scientist
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2015-06-17
Volume: 59
Issue: 10
Pages: 1231-1245
ISSN: 0002-7642 (ISSN-L)
1552-3381
DOI: 10.1177/0002764215591181
PMC: PMC4752119
OpenAlex: W2298405663
Cited by: 201
References: 59
Citations by year: 2026: 20 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4
FWCI: 18.96
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: American Behavioral Scientist (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD041020)
Topics: Social Sciences › Transportation › Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
Keywords: Hurricane Katrina, population recovery, housing recovery, displacement, evacuation, in-migration, emigration, regional disparities, social inequality, New Orleans

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