The Role of Total Community Action Presented by Thelma Harris French PresidentCEO J Kelley Terry AICP NCRT Director Planning Research amp Development Glenis Scott Director of Community amp Energy Services ID: 430473
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KATRINA: Ten Years Later
The Role of Total Community Action
Presented by
Thelma Harris French, President/CEO
J. Kelley Terry, AICP, NCRT, Director, Planning, Research & Development
Glenis Scott, Director of Community & Energy ServicesSlide2
Workshop objectives
KATRINA: TEN YEARS LATERSlide3
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
Participants will
Develop a structural understanding of what community action experienced in the wake and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans;
Discuss the opportunities, missed opportunities and outcomes ten years later.
Be provided with an opportunity to
see the results of community action’s engagement at the Management & Leadership Conference. Slide4
BUILDING ON PARTNERSHIPS
Customer Information – Key Activity
Faith Collaborative
City of New Orleans
American Red Cross
My Brother’s Keeper Promise
August 29thSlide5
EVERYONE LOSES SOMETHINGSlide6
WHO WOULD NEED HELP
Early media Focus: People Not able to Escape
Images Portrayed
Damage Impact Disproportionately sharedSlide7
A LOOK AT THE DISPARATIES
By Degree of Disparity
By race.
45.8% black, 26.4% Undamaged
By
housing tenure. 45.7%
renters
,
30.9% Undamaged.
By
poverty and employment status. 20.9%
below
the poverty
line, 15.3
% in undamaged areas. 7.6%
unemployed, 6.0
% in undamaged areas.Slide8
CLOSER INSPECTION
Some Affluent White area were hit hard and some minority areas were spared.
Yet if the post-Katrina city were limited to the population previously living in areas that were undamaged by the storm – that is, if nobody were able to return to damaged neighborhoods – New Orleans is at risk of losing more than 80% of its black
population.Slide9
CLOSER INSPECTION, Cont
This means that policy choices affecting who can return, to which neighborhoods, and with what forms of public and private assistance, will greatly affect the future character of the city
.
The
odds of living in a damaged area were clearly much greater for blacks, renters, and poor people. In these respects the most vulnerable residents turned out also to be at greatest risk. Slide10
THE poor and black people also have fewer resources for returning and
rebuilding.
ADVOCACY REPLACES SERVICES
COMMUNITY ACTION REALITYSlide11
A Neighborhood: Lower Ninth
WardSlide12Slide13
Residential Segregation
THE
PROJECTSSlide14
LakeviewSlide15
ALL IN THE SAME BOAT?
RACE & CLASS
PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR POLICIES
DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT
PAST PUBLIC INVESTMENTS
RENTERS
PROPERTY INSURANCE
INABILITY TO RETURN – SPECIFIC POLICIESSlide16
SPECIFIC POLICIES
EVIDENCE OF INSPECTION BY LISCENSED ELECTRICIAN
CLOSURE OF ALL PUBLIC HOUSING
ALLOCATION OF RENTAL ASSISTANCE FOR 18 MONTHS
where they were
FEMA Trailers
– neighborhood changesSlide17
MULTIPLE PLANning processes
Whose city will be rebuilt?
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY EFFECTIVENESS
ADVOCACY – PREPARING COMMUNITIES FOR CHANGE; FINDING A VOICESlide18
BRING NEW ORLEANS BACK
Map
, Image and Green
Space
Selective RebuildingSlide19Slide20
RECONNECTING FAMILIES THROUGH COMMUNITY ACTION THE WORKING CONFERNCE
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY EFFECTIVENESSSlide21Slide22
MOVING ADVOCACY TO FORFRONT
PETER DANGERFIELD
CITIZEN PARTICIPATION
VOICES OF THE POORSlide23
VOICE OF POOR STUDY
708 Low Income Evacuees
Provide findings to commissions and committees
Ensuring views of low income persons are included in any rebuilding processes
Process Leaders Co-Opt Research for private useSlide24
MANAGING CHANGE EFFECTIVELY
THE ROLE OF LEADERSHIP
TCA LEADERSHIP CHANGE
REBUILDING COMPONENTS, SILOS
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
CHANGE IN VISION
NEW LEADERSHIP, NEW DIRECTIONSSlide25
TEN YEAR LATER- EFFORTS TO ADDRESS THE INCOME AND OPPORTUNITY INEQUITIESSlide26
Economic opportunity vs income and opportunity inequities
Mayor touts Recovery Business Development : the highest economic rankings in the city history
14,000
new jobs since 2010 from major companies
From worst to first
CNO ranked 6
TH
BEST CITY FOR YOUNG Entrepreneurs
Many other first and national recognitions
Economic opportunity boasts 6B in infrastructure over the next decade
3
billion for bio district
800 million for airport
1.26 billion for drainage
601 million for sewerage
836 million for water system capital expenditures Slide27
Workforce Challenges
Long
term unified job vacancies
Shallow
pool of qualified workers
Very
high turnover at entry level jobs
Who is Missing?Slide28
Answering the Call – Pathways to Prosperity
Target Neighborhood Changes
Neighborhood Gentrification
Conflict “New” New
Orleanians
Network for Economic Opportunity
Comprehensive Crime StrategiesSlide29
CHANGING FOCUSES
Rebuilding
Recovery
Renew
Reveal
ResilienceSlide30
RESILENCE – THE NEW WORD
100 Resilient Cities
– Rockefeller Foundation
100RC
helps cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century. 100RC provides this assistance through funding for a chief resilience officer in each member city to lead resilience efforts; resources for drafting a resilience strategy; membership in a global network of peer cities to share best practices and challenges, and access to a variety of resilience tools, including the City Resilience Framework.
New
Orleans was one of the first members of the 100 Resilient Cities Network, and Resilient New Orleans was supported by the 100RC process
. New MoneySlide31
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION
THELMA HARRIS
FRENCH
copies of the power point are available
on TCA
website