Issues

Gulf Coast Recovery Research


The New Orleans Index at Six
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, August 2011

Beyond Recovery: Moving the Gulf Coast Toward a Sustainable Future
Kate Gordon , Jeffrey Buchanan, Phillip Singerman , Jorge Madrid and Sarah Busch , Center for American Progress and Oxfam America
February 2010

Access Denied: New Orleans Students and Parents Identify Barriers to Public Education
Shakti Belway, Southern Poverty Law Center
December 2010

Impact of Climate Change on Response Providers and Socially Vulnerable Communities in the U.S.
John Cooper (MDC) and Jasmine Waddell (Oxfam America), Oxfam America
November 2010

Katrina & Rita Five Years Later
Catholic Charities USA
August 2010

Five Years After Katrina: Progress Report on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal
Office of Governor Haley Barbour, State of Mississippi
August 2010

Women, Disasters, and Hurricane Katrina
Institute for Women's Policy Research
August 2010

Mounting Losses: Women and Public Housing After Hurricane Katrina
Institute for Women's Policy Research
August 2010

Women in New Orleans: Race, Poverty, and Hurricane Katrina
Institute for Women's Policy Research
August 2010

The New Orleans Index at Five
Amy Liu, Brookings Institution, and Allison Plyer,Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
August 2010

New Orleans Five Years After the Storm: A New Disaster Amid Recovery
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
August 2010

Search and Rescue Five Years Later: Saving People Still Trapped in Katrina’s Ruins
UNITY of Greater New Orleans
August 2010

Legacy of Katrina: The Impact of a Flawed Recovery on Vulnerable Children of the Gulf Coast
Children's Health Fund and National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
August 2010

Impact on Children and Families of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
David Abramson, Irwin Redlener, Tasha Stehling-Ariza, Jonathan Sury, Akilah Banister, and Yoon Soo Park National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
August 2010

Job Sprawl in Metro New Orleans: Based on 2008 Local Employment Dynamics Data from the U.S. Census
Allison Plyer, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
and Richard Campanella, Tulane University
June 2010

Housing Production Needs: Three Scenarios for New Orleans
Allison Plyer and Elaine Ortiz, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
Margery Austin Turner and Kathryn L.S. Pettit, The Urban Institute
November 2009

Exposed: Social Vulnerability and Climate Change in the U.S. Southeast
Oxfam America, October 2009

A Portrait of Louisiana: Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
Sarah Burd-Sharps, Kristen Lewis and Eduardo Borges Martins, American Human Development Project, September 2009

Housing Choice In Crisis: An Audit Report on Discrimination Against Housing Choice Voucher Holders in the Greater New Orleans Rental Market
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, August 2009

The New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition: Four Years after Katrina (pdf)
Amy Liu, Brookings Institution and Allison Plyer, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, August 2009

A Forgotten Crisis?: Coverage of post-Katrina Gulf Coast Poverty since 2005 (pdf)
Tom Freedman, Sam Gill and Sam Feder,Freedman Consulting, LLC, Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity and the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, July 2009

The New Orleans Index
Amy Liu, The Brookings Institution, and Allison Plyer, Greater New Orleans Data Center, January 2009

Rewarding Persistence: Effects of a Performance-Based Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents
Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Thomas Brock, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse, and Lisa Barrow, MDRC, January 2009

Realities of Recovery
Louisiana Family Recovery Corps, October 2008

A Long Way Home: The State of Housing Recovery in Louisiana 2008
Kalima Rose, Annie Clark and Dominique Duval-Diop, PolicyLink, August 2008

Faith in the Gulf: Lessons from the Religious Response to Hurricane Katrina (PDF)
Desiree Evans, Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis,Institute for Southern Studies, August 2008

Mirror on America: How the State of Gulf Coast Recovery Reflects on Us All
Oxfam America, August 2008

The New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition: Three Years after Katrina
Amy Liu, Brookings Institution, and Allison Plyer, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, August, 2008

New Orleans Three Years After the Storm: The Second Kaiser Post-Katrina Survey
Kaiser Family Foundation, August 2008

Three Years After Katrina: Progress Report on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal (pdf)
Office of Recovery and Renewal, State of Mississippi, August 2008

Bringing Louisiana Renters Home: An Evaluation of the 2006-2007 Gulf Opportunity Zone Rental Housing Restoration Program (PDF)
Annie Clark and Kalima Rose, PolicyLink, June 2007

Progress for Some, Hope and Hardships for Many: Storm survivors today and what’s necessary to ensure their recovery (PDF)
Dana Alfred, Louisiana Family Recovery Corps, May 2008

Hurricane Katrina and the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement:A Global Human Rights Perspective on A National Disaster (PDF)
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis, Institute for Southern Studies, January 2008

Katrina's Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America
Alan Berubeand Bruce Katz, The Brookings Institution, October 2005

Building a Better New Orleans: Hope Needs Help
PolicyLink, August 2007