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UPCOMING presentations

December 10, 2009 – "Federal funding, workforce, and jobs in New Orleans” New Orleans Workforce Participation Summit (Allison Plyer)

Recent presentations

November 6, 2008 – "Knowledge management before, during and after Katrina ” Keynote for the KM Team at the U.S. Navy Space & Naval Warfare Systems Center (Denice Ross)
November 5, 2008 – “Changing Demographics of the Region” Metropolitan Leadership Forum (Allison Plyer)
Oct 31, 2008 - "Using Administrative Data to Estimate Population Displacement and Resettlement following a Catastrophic U.S. Disaster," Southern Demographic Association (Allison Plyer & Joy Bonaguro)
Oct 25, 2008 - "Neither wind, nor rain, nor dark of night," New Orleans Speaks, (Allison Plyer)
Oct 23, 2008 - "By the Numbers: New Orleans Now ," Community Revitalization Funders, Greater New Orleans Foundation. (Allison Plyer & Denice Ross)
Oct 16, 2008 - "Supply and Demand Analysis of the New Orleans Affordable Multi-Family Residential Housing Market," Affordable Housing Investors Council (Allison Plyer & Bud Clarke, MMA Financial)
Oct 10, 2008 - "Statistical Basis of the Recovery," Dutch Dialogues II (Allison Plyer)
Oct 10, 2008 - "Closing Plenary: Grass Roots GIS in the Recovery of New Orleans," URISA (Denice Ross)
Oct 9, 2008 - Postal Data & Google Maps Shine Light on New Orleans Recovery," Urban & Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) (Joy Bonaguro, Elaine Ortiz, & Denice Ross
Sep 15 , 2008 - "Three Years After Katrina: Findings from The New Orleans Index plus new analysis after Hurricane Gustav," The Gulf Coast and the New Administration: An Agenda for the First 100 Days (Allison Plyer)

Featured Data Set

Percent of Pre-Katrina Households Actively Receiving Mail

Dec 31, 2008: New Orleans population growth picks up steam in the second half of 2008—reaching nearly 74 percent of pre-Katrina levels by December 2008. At year’s end the metro area has more than 88 percent of the pre-Katrina number of households. Read the full press release, or download the Excel spreadsheet of households actively receiving mail for the 7-parish area by zip code.

Essential Data

Jul	2007	Web	Total population estimates - U.S. Census Bureau Revised!
Dec	2008	PDF	New Orleans population growth picks up steam in the second half of 2008—reaching nearly 74 percent of pre-Katrina levels by December 2008 - News release about households actively receiving mail in the 7-parish region
Dec	2008	XLS	Households actively receiving mail - by zip code for the 7-parish area
Dec	2008	PDF	Public schools
Nov	2008	PDF	Child care centers
Oct	2008	Web	Public school enrollment - LA Dept of Education
Sep	2008	Web	Block-by-block repopulation indicators for New Orleans - Interactive map of households actively receiving mail pre- and post-K, closed Road Home "Stay and Rebuild" applications and closed Road Home "Sell to the State" applications
Mar	2008	PDF	National benchmarks for blight - Analysis of HUD data on unoccupied residential addresses
Jun	2008	PDF	Percent Recovery by Neighborhood (pre- and post-K) - News release, map and data table
Feb	2008	PDF	Regional hospitals
Jan	2008	PDF	Recovery funding gap
FY	2008	Web	Fair market rents- HUD
Feb	2006	PDF	Housing damage estimates - HUD
Post-K	2005	Web	Hurricane Impact - Reports on the immediate impact of Hurricane Katrina, covering issues such as demographics, race and class, business and job losses
Pre-K	2000	Web	Pre-Katrina Data Center web site - pre-storm data and background info on all 73 New Orleans neighborhoods, plus our articles, demographic maps, and data for the 10-parish area

Aug 2008: "Greater New Orleans approaches the end of its third year of recovery from a position of strength, with the vast majority of its pre-storm population and jobs. But recovery trends have slowed in the past year as tens of thousands of blighted properties, lack of affordable housing for essential workers, and thin public services continue to plague the region."

	Summary of Findings - 23 pages (PDF - 6 MB)
	Summary of Findings + Data Tables - 84 pages (PDF - 6.2 MB)

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