New Orleans affordable housing assessment: lessons learned

A report on the responses to hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma and their effect on the state of housing:

With the only point of consensus being that “things could have been done better”, this paper looks at the responses to disaster to see if any lessons can be learned and applied to future events within a long-term context. It focuses on the impact of the storms, efforts to rebuild New Orleans housing stock and the hurdles to creating affordability in housing in general.