Census Data Highlights Travails Of Katrina Victims

[Joanne98]

Source: AP

Nearly 30,000 Hurricane Katrina victims were forced to live in five or more homes after the storm hit, Census data released Monday showed, and about the same number said their permanent living situation was still in flux.

It was the latest Census data release to fill in the gaps about what has happened to the region since floodwalls and levees protecting the city broke, causing massive flooding and killing more than 1,600 people after the storm hit Aug. 29, 2005.

About four out of every five residents said they evacuated the city for at least a couple of weeks and had to relocate about two times. Also, 83 percent said they stayed in a house or apartment at least once during their displacement and about 31 percent said they stayed in a hotel, motel or cruise ship.

The new data, based on surveys of 6,000 housing units in the second half of 2009, looked at the larger metropolitan area of New Orleans, made up of about 1.1 million people


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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[nolabear]

2. Yep. People want to go home and so many still can't.

It's a slow, slow thing, but it's happening. Happy Mardi Gras!