New Orleans, 561 days later... Gentilly to Lakeview #1

I went down to New Orleans with a group of University of Minnesota Duluth students over spring break (March 11-17, 2007) to volunteer in the rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina. This video was taken during a drive through the neighborhoods of Gentilly and Lakeview, including the 17th street canal, after a long day of work and numerous questions of mine about how much rebuilding and help the city still needed. A lovely native of New Orleans took me on a 45 minute drive such that I could see it all for myself. This series of videos is meant to give some perspective and awareness as to how much help New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast still need. We've all got a little volunteer in us...

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• Orleans
• Katrina
• Volunteer
• Hurricane
• UMD
• Student

[sleepwalker29]

I'm a Realtor, and during the great dust bowl people sold their property for $1 a acre. So the owners are the problem. Sell it cheap. Master P bought a neighbore hood there and its all owned by his family. Do you think its worth gold. Take your losses and sell.

[lgwguy]

Gentilly still looks like this :(

[iRallHeart]

more like years gutting and rebuilding and trying to keep a full time job... its so sad

[iRallHeart]

the problem is they don't have money to rebuild

most of them don't have flood insurance and if they did the insurance companies aren't paying it out because the flooding was do to a hurricane not by rain fall, or the flooding was do to sewage backing up

[nawlinsfinest12]

um no actually i live in lakeview and in fact almost everyone here is back!! and no we did not just let our property sit there

[livrelovre]

you're kidding, right? 'cause people are really lining up by the hundreds to buy property in hurricane devastated areas of new orleans, and i'm sure YOU would spend weeks of your life cleaning up property where there might never again be power or water. you don't get it, do you? you, my friend, are the problem.

[sleepwalker29]

Why don't I see any forsale signs on the property? Are they just letting their real estate sit there, and not cleaning it up, or selling it? That the problem!

[Bookman]

You're right :D