SOCIAL POLICY JOURNAL: Six-Month Check-Up on New Orleans

They are coming back faster than projections, but still too slowly to suit people like me. After 6 months we are still a city of less than 200,000 people, which means that 260-270,000 are still stuck in the diaspora. This is a campaign bigger than any of us it seems. Rebuilding a city that was washed away with its people spread out thousands of miles. Read more...

WOMEN FUND: Fight for Katrina Recovery

(WOMENSENEWS)--Long before it became obvious that no government-sponsored cavalry was coming to help after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, women stepped in to engineer solutions to the problems facing female survivors of the Gulf Coast. Read more...

ASIAN COALITION FOR HOUSING RIGHTS: New Orleans Survivors Exchange with Thailand.

Over the past few days survivors from New Orleans Hurricane Katrina ordeal have been visiting tsunami affected communities in southern Thailand. Sept 13 - 17 they will visit survivors in Aceh, Indonesia. They are part of a series of ACHR's Survivors' Dialogue Exchanges to promote people centred recovery efforts. Read more...

SOCIAL POLICY JOURNAL: Two Paradigms for Renewal: Development Versus Property Owner Empowerment.

For recovery programs to serve families and individual householders with low incomes, special efforts must be made to include low-income people in the process, treat them equitably and provide sufficient technical and financial assistance so that everyone who wants to can go home again, if not to their own home, then somewhere nearby. Read more...

WOMEN'S FUNDING NETWORK: THE CALM IN THE STORM: Women Leaders in Gulf Coast. Recovery 2006

One year later, at the forefront of these constituencies stand women who have taken up leadership for a fair and just recovery, drawing on a history of community-based organizing and the unflinching support of women’s funds across the United States. Read more...

SOCIAL POLICY JOURNAL: Noticing Gender (or Not) in Disasters

The gendered character of this disaster, and the willful silence about it, is also more artifice than nature. At some point in the New Orleans disaster, this will be officially “noticed” but the costs of not paying attention to the gendered divide earlier in the disaster will be high for the women whose needs have gone unnoticed and unaddressed. Read more...