CNN's chief national correspondent John King traveled to New Orleans to look first-hand at recovery in the Lower Ninth Ward compared to the rest of the city. In this week’s "State of the Union” (Sundays, 8 ET), he features Patricia Berryhill, Alice Craft-Kerney and the positive impact of the Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic in Holy Cross. In the “Lower Ninth Ward trails in New Orleans 'new normal'” he reports:
“During a helicopter pass over the neighborhood, we saw concrete slabs and weedy spaces where houses once stood. Yes, there is a fair amount of new home construction, and renovations under way at some homes gutted by Katrina.
But while the debris is mostly gone, much of the neighborhood remains an abandoned wasteland.”
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"My sense is the post-Katrina city we all wondered about 3½ years ago what would it look like – that we are there now," Campanella (Tulane University demographer Richard Campanella ) said in an interview on the Tulane campus. "The patterns are stabilizing and we are in a 'new normal' period."
A new normal in which the Lower Ninth Ward trails significantly behind.
Only about 19 percent of its pre-Katrina population has returned; roughly 3,600 people live there today, compared to some 19,000 when Katrina hit.”
But while the debris is mostly gone, much of the neighborhood remains an abandoned wasteland.”
…
"My sense is the post-Katrina city we all wondered about 3½ years ago what would it look like – that we are there now," Campanella (Tulane University demographer Richard Campanella ) said in an interview on the Tulane campus. "The patterns are stabilizing and we are in a 'new normal' period."
A new normal in which the Lower Ninth Ward trails significantly behind.
Only about 19 percent of its pre-Katrina population has returned; roughly 3,600 people live there today, compared to some 19,000 when Katrina hit.”
