TWO YEARS AFTER THE STORM: THE STATE OF KATRINA HOUSING RECOVERY ON THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST (PDF)

Affordable housing and disaster insurance topped the legislative wish list of almost 20 Gulf Coast business people visiting Mississippi's congressional delegation Thursday.

The response to Mississippi's housing needs after Hurricane Katrina wasn't fast enough, state and local officials told a U.S. House subcommittee Saturday.

This paper provides a selective review of two aspects of urban policy in the U.S. – federal policy providing housing subsidies for lower income households, and federal support for urban redevelopment and physical renewal.

The city's official blueprint for redevelopment after Hurricane Katrina, to be released on Wednesday, will recommend that residents be allowed to return and rebuild anywhere they like, no matter how damaged or vulnerable the neighborhood, according to sev

An Orleans Parish judge barred a local hotel from kicking out hurricane evacuees Saturday after a conflict arose at the St. Charles Avenue inn over those given shelter through a federal emergency lodging program.

Residents missing loved ones know that there are more dead yet to be uncovered in the debris, whose bodies would be wrongfully buried by demolition. Adding insult to injury, a history of redlining has left the land in the Lower 9th Ward not only low-lying

With a cell phone crooked in her ear and scores of activists cheering her on in the 2000 block of Reynes Street, lawyer Tracie Washington sent a backhoe and its crew packing from the Lower 9th Ward Thursday morning.

With schools continuing to reopen for the second half of the year, thousands of people are returning but many are finding it difficult to find a place to live.

With deals like the Spangenbergs' moving forward, the real estate market is showing signs of life even in some of the neighborhoods that flooded.

Rose Harris was a resident of the Lafitte Housing Projects in the Treme (rhymes nearly with "dismay") neighborhood of New Orleans for 28 years. She lost a brother, a nephew, and a sister-in-law in Hurricane Katrina. The first floor of her home was flooded