Dec 16, 2025
The New Orleans Youth Dashboard gives insight on the overall well-being of New Orleans youth and children. As well as provides basic demographic data to understand whether the youth population is growing or shrinking in Orleans.
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Sep 16, 2025
More folks started businesses in Metro New Orleans following both Hurricane Katrina and the COVID-19 pandemic at a higher rate than people did so nationally, filling gaps in recovery efforts and beefing up household resiliency to weathering ever increasing shocks. This report examines entrepreneurial resilience in Metro New Orleans and offers policy recommendations to sustain and accelerate business growth.
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Aug 22, 2025
Philanthropic giving poured in following Hurricane Katrina, aiding the recovery efforts. This report examines the philanthropic landscape as the region transitioned out of the recovery phase and philanthropic investments in the region shifted in focus.
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Aug 19, 2025
Demonstrating their resiliency post-Hurricane Katrina, many local universities cooperated, offering students the ability to take courses at different universities in Metro New Orleans, while these universities recovered. In the years since, these same institutions have hardened their campuses and offer degrees in emergency management, green energy, and coastal restoration, contributing to long-term regional resilience.
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Aug 18, 2025
Negative shocks, such as natural disasters, are part of the social determinants of health and can interfere with our ability to be resilient when faced with hardship. Understanding what social determinants of health are and making investments based on this understanding to create healthier communities, will in turn help folks be better prepared and better able to bounce back when the next disaster strikes.
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Aug 15, 2025
Despite enormous efforts to rebuild, many thousands of New Orleans' properties remained blighted five years later. New Orleans became a leader in data-driven blight reduction, addressed heirs’ property issues, and showed that supportive enforcement, community-led redevelopment, and legal reforms are key to preventing further displacement.
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Aug 14, 2025
Following the events of Hurricane Katrina, reforms were put in place that reduced the overall prison population, but investments in “social determinants of safety” were still lacking. With a recent return to “tough-on-crime” policies, this report examines how past and present policies and investments in crime reduction have influenced community safety and well-being.
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Aug 11, 2025
This paper examines how the presence of pollutants, and inaction on part of the state to mitigate, before and after Hurricane Katrina burdened Metro New Orleans communities with increased levels of toxicity, leaving many residents vulnerable to the effects of unhealthy levels of toxins in the air and water.
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Aug 11, 2025
Post Hurricane Katrina, during a series of events that sought to quickly reform failing schools and ensure every child that needed school placement had one, all NOLA PS schools were converted to charter. As the transition was taking place, OPSB’s role transformed and the community's relationship to local schools changed dramatically. This paper assesses the pros and cons of this transition to a mostly charter system and describes how the school environment has changed since Hurricane Katrina.
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Aug 05, 2025
As shocks increase, the 20th anniversary of Katrina is a key milestone for examining Metro New Orleans’ ability to absorb, adapt to, and recover from shocks. The New Orleans Index at Twenty examines regional resilience capacity organized by housing and infrastructure, economy and workforce, wealth, and people.
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