Former presidents GW Bush, Clinton to mark Katrina 10th

He was given a second chance at healthy living thanks to UNITY of Greater New Orleans, who helped him move into a permanent home Thursday morning. Obama’s most recent visit to the city came in November 2013.

Clinton will visit on Saturday, the anniversary of the hurricane’s landfall, and speak at the city’s main commemoration. The school benefited from the Gulf Coast School Library Recovery Initiative, a special fund of the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries established to help Gulf Coast schools that were damaged by the hurricanes to rebuild their book and material collections.

Though President Bush and members of his administration were widely criticized for their response to the storm and the federal levee failures that inundated the city, Bush did make 15 visits to the region in the three years after the storm.

Obama will be joined by Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

A new report says homelessness is still a problem in New Orleans but it’s not as bad as it was after Hurricane Katrina hit 10 years ago.

As reported by Richard Thompson in the New Orleans Advocate, the next step, according to Pitt, is improving access to grocery stores in the Ninth Ward. As NPR reported on Monday, more than 5,000 families lived in public housing pre-Katrina.

Mrs. Bush made several separate visits to the region over the past decade.

August 29: New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has planned a day of service with groups volunteers working on 100 projects.

A White House official told CNN that the administration has focused on supporting the needs of survivors and bolstering recovery efforts.

For more information on lead poisoning, see the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals fact sheet.