Tune in Here for a Ten-Minute Briefing on New Orleans's Recovery
By Thomas Hilbink
How do you describe five years of a city's life in ten minutes? Allison Plyer of the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center does just that in GNOCDC’s youtube briefing on The New Orleans Index at Five, a comprehensive assessment of the city’s recovery five years after the storm and the failure of the levees.
Read more coverage about The New Orleans Index at Five:
- Open Society Blog - A Hard Look at the “New” New Orleans
- The New Republic - Will Charters Save the New Orleans Schools?
- The Institute for Southern Studies - Lessons from the Gulf: How Can We Better Prepare for Disasters?
- USA Today - Gulf Oil Spill Adds Facet to Katrina Recovery
- NPR - Five Years Later, the Big Easy Pushes Forward
- CNN.com - Study finds New Orleans Richer after Katrina
- PBS NewsHour - New Orleans Getting Stronger, but Katrina's Problems Linger 5 Years Later
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In the five years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the levees broke, residents have developed innovative approaches to tackling some of the city’s—and the nation’s—most persistent problems: criminal justice reform, unresponsive government, and racial and economic inequality. In recognition of these efforts, during the month of August the Open Society Blog shines a light on people and organizations in New Orleans bringing change from within one of the country’s most important cities.
Until June 2022, Tom Hilbink was the director of the Grant Making Support Group.