New Orleans Ten Years After The Storm: The Kaiser Family Foundation Katrina Survey Project

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and the subsequent levee failure led to unprecedented destruction in New Orleans, the Kaiser Family Foundation teamed up with NPR to conduct a survey of the city’s current residents. This work builds on three previous surveys conducted by the Foundation in 2006, 2008, and 2010, as well as a survey of Katrina evacuees in Houston shelters conducted in partnership with the Washington Post in September 2005.

The new survey examines how those who are currently living in Orleans Parish feel about the progress the city has made and the lingering challenges it faces, including those brought about by Katrina and those that pre-date the storm.

• News Release
• Report: New Orleans Ten Years After the Storm: The Kaiser Family Foundation Katrina Survey Project
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Read/Listen to NPR’s Coverage

• New Orleanians See Remarkable Progress, A Decade After Hurricane Katrina, August 10, 2015
• New Orleans’ Overall Crime Rate Has Fallen. Why Are People So Frustrated? August 11, 2015
• Katrina’s Emotional Legacy Includes Pain, Grief And Resilience, August 14, 2015
• New Orleans Schools, 10 Years After Katrina: Beacon Or Warning? August 15, 2015
• In Measuring Post-Katrina Recovery, A Racial Gap Emerges, August 15, 2015
• Katrina Shut Down Charity Hospital But Led To More Primary Care, August 19, 2015
• New Orleans Neighborhoods Scrabble For Hope In Abandoned Ruins, August 22, 2015
• More NPR coverage of the Hurricane Katrina anniversary