| Rebuilding New Orleans With Affordable, Hurricane-Resistant Residential
James Goedert
This article reflects the views of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
This article describes a project in which the overall objective was to provide information and designs for the rebuilding effort in New Orleans following the city’s destruction by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. More than 250,000 houses were damaged in New Orleans—100,000 beyond repair. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln teamed with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans to work with residents in the Tremé/Lafitte neighborhoods of Orleans Parish to rehabilitate, construct, and reconstruct their homes. Three objectives of the project were to (1) develop a rehabilitation manual; (2) design 10 new affordable house designs with 10 variations, for a total of 20 new designs; and (3) capture the designs of 10 houses to be demolished and rebuilt.
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