10 Years After Katrina, Has New Orleans Been Rebuilt, Or Just Gentrified? 

Jordan Richardson they are doing this in DC your right

So? Anyone who can afford the costs, can move where they wish. And those who can't afford their costs, and need handouts, need to move to less expensive areas when required. It's pretty common sensical.

You know if you step your money right you can stay living anywhere really

My god I felt that when he said "like you". Lord they are still taking advantage of the destruction and the lower income familys and individuals. Didnt rebuild any of the older or original character. They are flat out admitting that they are catering to people who arent born and raised there. Heartbreaking 😔

The interesting thing is he didn't check her credit or verified her income b4 he already knew he wanted people like her.

+Dawud G Delves Then go live in the new ghetto.

+W.A. S.P. U r a terrible person

+Edward Jones I may be terrible but I'm honest. If you do not continue to improve the city that you live in then it will become one big slum.

+W.A. S.P. its not a matter of improvement thats the problem, its a matter of saying black people having a good situation is not an incentive to improve or bring in a new job market, but to instead wait until white people move into a neighborhood should you invest in it.

+Dawud G Delves Anti-gentrification advocates are so ignorant. Why complain about the improvement of a city just because YOU can't afford it? Because you feel you have a right to a neighborhood you grew up in that was destroyed? I'm sorry, did you build the new housing? No? Not only does gentrification improve living conditions of ALL, even the poorer residents that now have to scoot to the outskirts of town (because they now have access to luxuries they never had access to before just a few miles away), but it also creates jobs and income and more overall INVESTMENT into the city, which ultimately affects all facets of New Orleans life.

Is there any documentation of this or any other poor white cities I would love to learn about that..

Similiar thing slowly happening in Corvallis, OR, the college town i use to live in when i was going to OSU. A lot of old buildings slowly being removed and replaced with multi-level apartments with exorbitant rent and expensive, trendy stores.

It's like you're all lives mattering it

We're just put out onto the streets. Nobody cares.

​@@ProfessionaltalentSpokane. Happening here. Poorer white folks, turning it into rich white folks.

New Orleans has been gentrified before this new gentrification began. In the 1960’s-1980’s, a huge wave of blacks from elsewhere moved into New Orleans and displaced its white majority population to the suburbs. New Orleans was 69% white in 1950, but was 67% black a month before Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It was near total population replacement in just nearly two decades from the 1960’s to the 1980’s as this was the replacement era. You don’t even know about this gentrification because it’s rarely talked about today. The local black population before this huge wave of black gentrification was only 31% in 1950.

@chrisseh100 White people dare to leave and it's "white flight." White people dare to return and it's "gentrification."

MEANT SPREADING NOT SPEAK ( type-O )

I'm here in New Orleans and gentrification has destroyed the city.

@@IslenoGutierrez You’re not describing gentrification. What you’re talking about is “White Flight”. When black peoples would start to move into inner city neighborhoods, white people moved to the outer limits of cities and stayed there. There weren’t displaced, nobody forced them to leave. They just didn’t want to live amongst black people. Very on brand for white Americans in 60s, 70s and 80s. This is why suburbs are so popular.

D.C has become a hipster paradise and it has lost most of its soul and culture.I can;t even recognize the place any longer.Nothing but young white trust fund kids walking around feeling high and mighty.

replace /Black/french/ King LA. They need that french history back! We need more mexicans moving in!

King LA Most of the blacks in New Orleans you see today, replaced the original population of New Orleans, whom the majority were whites. The blacks in New Orleans today, most are those that mass migrated into New Orleans in the 1970’s from outside the city and they replaced the majority white population local to the city. I’m a white Creole, meaning I’m a white person of creole heritage which means I descend from the original settlers of colonial Louisiana. We had a tight knit community in the city and then the mass migration of blacks from outside the city arrived and destroyed our community by replacing most of us, where our families have lived since the founding of New Orleans itself. We are now spread out throughout the metro New Orleans area. How come no one is talking about that? The culture of the city is not black or “soul” culture. It’s a multicultural culture made up of European, African and Native American elements. The poboys you speak of (I wish they were $3, like they were when I was a kid, well that was $5 but close enough) were invented by a white couple from New Orleans and is served on a local version of bread brought with the French people all the way from from France in Europe, which was then altered a bit by an Italian baker to have rounded ends from its pointy ended French origin. Look at Mardi Gras, it’s a custom and tradition brought from France. Look at dishes such as jambalaya which was created by the Spanish in New Orleans. Look at the spice we put in one of our dishes, that we call “filé” (fee-lay) it came from the Native Americans. Those “black Indians” that dress up, they got that from the Native Americans, they have taken on a Native American tradition. Look at Jazz, it’s a fusion of Sicilian brass band wedding and funeral tradition, using European instruments that fused with African rhythms into it. Look at the architecture, it’s a mixture of French and Spanish styles. There are tons of aspects of New Orleans culture that comes from European influence as well as minor Native American influence. African influence is not the only influence in New Orleans and New Orleans culture is certainly not a black culture. Blacks became the majority in 1980 in New Orleans. New Orleans culture existed long before 1980. New Orleans culture started in 1718. For most of its existence since it’s founding, New Orleans has had a white majority. Whites are not foreign to New Orleans, they created it out of swamp land and wilderness. I am happy to see a white population in New Orleans again and I hope it grows to become the majority like it was before. Then maybe the original white New Orleanians currently in refuge in the suburbs will return to the city. I’m not saying get rid of all the black people, but there would be nothing wrong with getting back to New Orleans’ traditional demographic set up where whites were the majority.

King LA + it already has bro

It literally won’t, I live here and it’s still majority black. People saying New Orleans is so gentrified are really over exaggerating. We still face problems with extreme poverty and lack of jobs.

James Tee OK you don`t have to shout

James Tolliver lol

Well it was a bad neighborhood

There are lots of wealthy black business men and women. Why didn't they buy the real estate since this was obviously a good time to buy real estate?

That's called Gentrification 101.

Gentrification is not good and friendly towards the original Black residents, wherever it presents its ugly head!

N.W.A. You missed the point. Smh

Someone who actual knows what they are talking about. This city is BELOW sea level. If they can build it up and get people to come live there MORE power to them!!

the issue, you're going to predominately and historic black areas of the city , that were rich in culture and driving them out of their own neighborhood. WHY NOT GO TO THE WAREHOUSE DISTRiCT? OR ST. CHARLES??? that's what gentrifying is. I know how much it cost to build a new home, and insure it, y'all are over pricing those cheaply built model homes and you know it. You would have never moved to mid-city if you knew you couldn't low ball its prior residents out of their home. It's greed that fuels these rebuilds. When it's being priced, you know exactly what you're doing. Y'all are drawn to these certain areas because it has a culture you can profit off of. Once you move its original inhabitants out, the culture goes along with it. YOU all only became interested when you saw you could flip the houses or buildings. If it was SUCH a SlUm why move there? The issue with all of this is MOTIVE!! Ya'll invade these neighborhoods and treat the residents like they don't belong there. Thats the issue. The people in the community try to put in an effort, the city and bank only finds the funding when its white investors.............think about that... look up predatory lending

Hey I’m a real local from New Orleans born and raised, but nobody here is talking about the black gentrification that replaced most of the local whites in New Orleans. Let’s talk about that. New Orleans used to be 69% white in 1950, but was 67% black one month before Katrina in 2005. Thats near total population replacement.

Dragon1717 I agree. but I want inclusion from the original people. So Stop Gentrfication

***** thats true. but where are these people going to go?

***** but that's what happens everywhere. move the poorer and community based people somewhere else. and the rich move in. Its sad and the destruction of culture

***** maybe that's what progress is. But its sad that we haven't found other ways of dealing with this problem as it is happening all over the world

+Arran Sathananthar So back in the day when Brooklyn was white, and blacks started moving in. The whites fought against it. And they were considered racist. Also in Europe people have concerns that all these refugees will hurt their culture. But people just call them racist. So when whites protect their culture it is racist. But when blacks do it it's heroic?

She's complaining because she feels that the poor and minority groups are being left out of the new development

Caleb Rodregez What to they contribute?

+pytko3 1 they are humans and you are a human and it's in human nature to help each other because if we don't our society and everything we worked for will fall 2. They lived there first and they are the reason New Orleans got popular, they make New Orleans food, they made New Orleans culture, they made New Orleans fun and different, 3. People knew that land was cheap and wrongfully ( morally wrong ) brought their land from under their feet

Who cares if the city looks good when people who was born and raised there are forced out. Nothing good comes from Gentrification. I've lived in New York City my entire life and gentrification is so real over here. The city is drastically different and people are unhappy and working 3 jobs to make rent. This is SAD SAD SAD. I've watched first hand what gentrification does to people and a community. There's no culture anymore because there's no diversity. People are slowly becoming segregated.

pytko3 Nope...looks don't mean shit. The culture is gone, the flavor is stale...it's become BORING. BORING, and corporate mahogenie. McOrleans.

I agree. Projects don't work. Let them all be destroyed and replaced with something way better.

not you talking like that with the last name Garcia....lol chillleeeeee..

WORDto BIGbird The city simply is NOT the same....like u just said...BORING stale, gentrification. ...and sputnik classes CLASHES type.

Spanish and French didn't steal anything. They designed and built the beautiful architecture in the city while people in Africa were still living in straw huts....... Later Carribean and African cultures influenced food and music along with the French....Quit with the "we was KINGZ" mentality.

Dis city washed up and out ya heard meh...no mo New Orleans...at least what I remember during 80's and 90's... those were the golden years...I miss them days ya😔

+kayode kasali No dey's gonna be rap stars or play in da NBA. Maybe the join the National Felons League and catch da football.

+kayode kasali Im not saying i like the idea but "the projects" is about affordability. Lower class and poor demographic cant afford to live in higher classes, even a difference of 5000$ a year can make a hell of a difference.

+W.A. S.P. Why do white people do that?

+larsattack That's the way coloureds like to be portrayed, as thugs. There are non thugs out there but they aren't the ones in the media. Stay in school., learn to speak proper English and stop blaming everything on slavery.

+W.A. S.P. slavery is the seminal catastrophe for blacks alot of issues today can be blamed on slavery so yea shut up

+Pixie Perfect There was video of Bush being informed about the levies and Hurricane Katrina. He did nothing yet black folks down there were all too happy to take pictures with him smfh

***** He was advised to reinforce the levies before Katrina hit and he said No.

***** are you really attempting to downplay the truth in lieu of Bush II? Can you explain how we couldn’t get more equipment in the get those folks out of those cities...but we can take equipment into Iraq in record time?

@Cory Dunn we believe they're all powerfully evil

M0ebius New Orleans used to be majority white and largely affluent for hundreds of years and in 1980, it became majority black.

Exactly.

MxdBrd1 why hide the truth?

but that's what it looks like. Why hide it? That's the reality in many parts of New orleans Have you ever been there?

+Marco A Santa Barbara is plenty rich and white already, fool.

+Marco A oh yeah, but if white people complain about the problems blacks bring to their neighborhood blacks cry racism. WTH?

Shiwanokia Actually im not black its just pic. Im chumash, and as long as you havent gone through hardships (generations) or been to SB through its major changes i dont think you understand.

+Marco A The whole west coast is one fake,rich(mostlywhite) outsiders

Hello. Do you think that some of the stories of Whole Foods and gentrification are myths?

@@michaelreed4744 no. Well maybe. Not in Philly though babes.

+rtswift Or are fully exploiting the happenstance.

+Dawud G Delves yeah who knows(and we will probably never know)? it is just odd that some accounts say they heard explosion.

***** I agree that we may never know. But, the term explosion is very vague. I can imagine that millions of gallons of water slamming against, compromising, and rupturing a metal levee system would not be anywhere near ,.... quiet.

Dawud G Delves yeah in a state of panic peoples accounts are definitely skewed.

***** 100%

Lil Peep Peep she said they found one but she was filling out a job application lol

+Rebuilt Gearbox doesn't ring a bell for me. I didn't play the original though, so it might be in the first one, the xbox exclusive one.

MeGusta GameStation I was thinking a clothes store from the Third.

I'm still trying to figure that out.

El Matador lies Its Haitian-spanish-african american, not white people

Ms. San Slaves only built some of it, and they followed designs put together by colonists. Besides aristocratic French/Spanish, there were also blue collar French/Spanish that were tradesmen and they built a ton of buildings in New Orleans. True, the Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land mass of New Orleans, but not the original inhabitants of the actual city of New Orleans as it was a European creation created by French and Spanish colonists.

Xavi Alexis What, the culture or inhabitants? There were Haitians yes, many white Haitians fleeing the slave revolt of Haiti, mulattoes from Haiti called free people of color and black slaves from Haiti. But there were many others in New Orleans also. There where whites, whom where French and Spanish, and there was a wave of whites from Italy, Germany and Ireland that arrived in the Antebellum period. The French, Spanish and Africans were from the colonial period. Jews also were in New Orleans from various parts of Europe. There was also a few Cubans that came as well. In the beginning of the Antebellum period, there were waves of whites that arrived from other parts of the US. They settled Uptown. There was a wave of African-Americans from other parts of the south that arrived in the late 20th century following white flight to the suburbs and new civil rights laws. Now, there are whites moving in from other states. New Orleans have many influences and is still evolving. But New Orleans culture much more complex than what you have described. It is mainly a mix of French, Spanish, African, Haitian, Italian, German, Irish, Native American, as well as the American south, but with minor influences from Jews, Acadians, Cubans, Croatians. It's a very mixed culture. It's multicultural and shared by all those whose ancestors have settled the greater New Orleans area.

El Matador well damn expert. My bad iguess.

Xavi Alexis I am a bit of an expert. I'm a local New Orleanian, a white Creole person and I descend from the colonial population of the city. I've studied the history of my people and my city for many years. I try to put accurate information out there, because there are many people putting out inaccurate information.

The Sounds of the Suburbs they were living where they could....gentrification in general happens when people purposely raise the prices in order to remake neighborhoods so they can become more "friendly" and safe. You sound so stupid. They literally just talked about how they used to live their and their homes were torn down so they are now displaced. That was their home and now it just benefits the more wealthy. Smh learn somethin

The very same liberals that the people getting priced out voted for en masse.

What FEMA Money? That was a lie they gave that to ppl who didn't need it like the white ppl

No matter what u think this wasn't our fault we didn't tell them to bomb the levis. We wasn't the ones lied about the levees come to find out they didn't build the levees right

They didn't and thousands lost their lives because of it but the people of New Orleans continue to put their lives in the hands of the ones who want them gone. Period. People from New Orleans need to get more involved yet the parents let the youngsters roam around like idiots. Teach them what to do to not let it happen again. And bull crap on that FEMA topic, folks was running around like it was a game spending that money on rims and cars. Everybody was ballin and I witnessed it with my own eyes and ears. They dropped the ball, now pick that bish up and don't drop it this time.

Man it's a lot of crooked stuff going on with that they want this to be a rich white city they taking away the culture that was here that.the government police DA Judge just everything messed up even if u vote. Plus they carry u seen u to jail and that decrease voting laws

Yeah it is bad but you know that "crab in a buck" mentality is alive and well. Black folk hate on each other hard in the N.O. If they can focus on rebuilding at least for the kids and future generation it would be a lot better but too many people out for self. They would rather go to the white markets instead of hitting up an up in coming black business. I mean WeDat Food truck coming up but black folk take notes they should running the service industry not just working in it.. Almost ALLLLL the cooks and help are Black. Choose a market and master that bih.