All Reports & Analysis

Optimizing Blight Strategies: Deploying limited resources in different neighborhood housing markets

Nov 30, 2010

How strong is your neighborhood's housing market? And how can limited resources be used to maximize blight reduction across New Orleans?

Economic Timeline: Selected Historical Events that Shaped the New Orleans Economy, 1700–2010

Aug 04, 2010

Historical events that shaped the New Orleans Economy from 1700–2010.

Coastal Employment before the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster: Employment Maps and Data from 2008

Jul 20, 2010

This brief describes employment in coastal Louisiana two years prior to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. The jobs data within this brief serves as a baseline against which future impacts of the oil disaster may be compared.

Job Sprawl in Metro New Orleans

Jul 13, 2010

2008 data on the location and density of jobs and workers by income level and industry with implications for the location of workforce housing.

Post–Katrina Commuter Patterns: Based on 2008 Local Employment Dynamics data from the U.S. Census Bureau

Jan 15, 2010

2008 data on where workers live compared to where they work by low, moderate and high–wage levels.

Housing Production Needs: Three Scenarios for New Orleans

Nov 12, 2009

How much more housing and of what type does New Orleans need? And what do you do when market rate vacancies are rising but many people still cannot afford housing?

Prevalent wages and affordable rents

This one-page fact sheet shows the number of workers in the New Orleans area by income range and affordable rent for various occupations making less than $35,000 a year.

Post–Katrina housing affordability challenges continue in 2008, worsening among Orleans Parish very low income renters: Based on 2004, 2007 and 2008 American Community Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau

Philanthropic Role in Increasing Civic Clout for Water Management

This infographic highlights philanthropic giving to environmental causes and explains the critical role philanthropy will play in maximizing the development of the water management industry in the Super Region.

Pathways to a sustainable cluster

This infographic provides a roadmap for how economic development leaders, government, higher education, investors, researchers, and philanthropy can develop a self-sustaining water management cluster.