Before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was a spatially segregated city in which the poor largely lived in cheap, below-sea-level housing.This was due to…

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Long-time government decisions to straighten the Mississippi channel and to drain marshland have resulted in the loss of natural barriers that once protected the city from storm surges. This, coupled with the desire to expand the capacities of the Port of New Orleans and to aid oil production, led to the construction of housing in low-lying areas that were vulnerable to flooding. As a result, the poor were often forced to live in these areas because this was the only housing they could afford.

Before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Was a Spatially Segregated City