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In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina
struck...
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VOL.
10, No.
20 OCTOBER 30, 2009BATON ROUGE, LA
NON-PROFIT
U.
S.
POSTAGE
PAIDBATON
ROUGE,LA
PERMIT#
575
527NorthBlvd.
BatonRouge,LA
70802-5700
Hagar’s House
Bayou Blue UMC / 4
UM Men/ 3
Toy Mission / 7
In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina
struck Louisiana’s Gulf Coast.
The city of
New Orleans was devastated by the storm,
largely by flooding caused when levees
were breeched.
The storm displaced thousands in New
Orleans and left behind a population of
homeless persons that reaches unprecedented levels for a U.
S.
city: one in 25
residents.
According to USA Today (2008
article), there is an estimated 12,000
homeless in the city, which accounts for
4% of New Orleans’ estimated population
of 302,000.
The numbers were reported
by the homeless advocacy group UNITY
of Greater New Orleans, which added that
the number is nearly double the preKatrina homeless count.
After Katrina, a large number of those
homeless began to camp under the
Claiborne overpass on Interstate 10.
In
October
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