Haiti can be the next New Orleans

Published: January 21, 2010
Tags: blog, Haiti, Hot Topics, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Yovino
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By Joe Yovino

web editor

Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake have many similarities, and that’s why there should be good news ahead for Haiti.

Katrina keeps engineers busy on coast

Published: October 13, 2009
Tags: A. Garner Russell, Community Development Block Grants, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Gulf Regional Water and Waste Water improvement plan, Hurricane Katrina, Neel-Schaffer

Laura Smith Dolan Media Newswires Jackson, MI — If good can come from a devastating hurricane, it’s the face-lift the Gulf Coast will have when millions of dollars of infrastructure improvement projects are complete, according to engineers on the coast. Hurricane Katrina battered Mississippi’s Gulf Coast four years ago, and cities now are using government [...]

Floating house could ride out floods

Published: October 7, 2009
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, Make It Right Foundation, Morphosis Architects, ReMax

Stacey Plaisance AP Writer New Orleans — A house capable of floating atop rising floodwaters made its debut this week in New Orleans alongside more than a dozen other homes built through actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation. Called the FLOAT House, the unique home aims to answer the challenge posed by the Big [...]

Demand drives growth of green suppliers

Published: September 11, 2009
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans

Emilie Bahr Dolan Media Newswires Green has been the buzz in New Orleans building since Hurricane Katrina wiped out much of the existing housing stock and shined a new spotlight on the city’s ecological vulnerability. Despite growing interest, one significant impediment to green building locally has historically been a dearth of green building supplies, an [...]

Sales suffer for New Orleans ‘GO-Zone’ bonds

Published: July 29, 2009
Tags: bonds, Construction, credit market, development, Gulf Opportunity Zone, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, recovery, unemployment

Becky Bohrer AP Writer New Orleans — New Orleans got more than $1 billion for tax-free bonds to help spur development after Hurricane Katrina, but it’s finding few takers amid a tight credit market and lingering jitters about investing here nearly four years after the storm. About $740 million remains untouched. Nearly $500 million more [...]

FEMA still lacks housing plan

Published: July 9, 2009
Tags: FEMA, Homeland Security Department, housing, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Mississippi, mobile homes, Rita, trailer

Ben Evans AP Writer Washington — The government could end up repeating mistakes seen after Hurricane Katrina without a better plan for housing people after a catastrophe, the Homeland Security Department’s internal watchdog told lawmakers Wednesday. Richard Skinner, DHS’s inspector general, said at a House Homeland Security hearing that the agency still relies too heavily [...]