New Orleans Locals on a Decade of Post-Storm Change, Part 2

Still, the rate of homelessness here remains higher than many other American cities with about 47 homeless people per 10,000 residents in 2014, the report said.

While Obama, other government officials and the news media focus on the tragedy and the future of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, those who lived through it are planning to observe its anniversary with gatherings large and small.

President and Mrs. Bush first visited Warren Easton Charter High School in August 2006 to mark the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The school had benefited from a fund set up by Laura Bush, a former librian, to help schools damaged in the disaster rebuild their stock of books and materials.

President Obama visited the city on the fifth anniversary of Katrina in 2010, speaking at Xavier University, visiting with a family in the Columbia Parc development (the former St. Bernard housing development). Obama’s most recent visit to the city came in November 2013. The President will be joined by Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate, who has helped spearhead and coordinate numerous Administration’s efforts and this all-of-Nation approach over the past six and a half years.

The 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall on New Orleans is around the corner on August. 29, and Brad Pitt’s Make It Right organization plans to honor the day with the unveiling of a new tiny home.

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.

A decade ago, flooding that resulted from Hurricane Katrina ruined the New Orleans home of NYCFC forward Patrick Mullins. He also will go to Gulfport, Mississippi, for an event thanking first responders.

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