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Post-Katrina Gentrification In New Orleans Was a Warning
['Anjulie Rao']
Dwell.com
Though it never came to be, the Green Dot Map’s specter haunts post-disaster recovery and adaptation planning in New Orleans.
Subsequent recovery endeavors have yielded what’s considered "gentrification by flood," in which there’s been a demographic shift, broadly characterized as a whiter, wealthier New Orleans.
"We saw renters, public housing residents, communities of color, people that were unhoused, were unable to access those resources, and so they had no recourse to be able to come back," she continues.
Lamb, however, is concerned about how these types of resilience projects become directly linked to gentrification itself.
In recent years, the federal government has been more attuned to the ways that short and long-term disaster recovery and prevention exacerbates existing disparities.
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