How We Came Back: Voices from Post-Katrina New Orleans

by Virgil Henry Storr, Nona Martin Storr, Emily Chamlee-Wright

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeastern Louisiana, displacing half a million people and causing more than $100 billion in damage in the Greater New Orleans region. The nation wondered how the people of New Orleans could recover from a disaster of this magnitude, the costliest in American history. Within a few years of Katrina, hundreds of thousands had returned and were rebuilding their homes. How they have come back is,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942951140
• ISBN13: 9781942951148
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Mercatus Center at George Mason University
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"