Posted on 05. Jul, 2012 by Sophie Rosen By Hannah Adams, Guest
Contributor In both disasters, large regions lost the majority
of their affordable housing stock, resulting in massive spikes
in homelessness and displacement. UNITY of Greater New Orleans
reports that homelessness rates effectively doubled in the city
from January 2005 to January 2009.  The Greater New Orleans
Community Data Center adds that New Orleans experienced a
population loss of over 140,000 according to the 2010 census,
and that poor New Orleanians and families with children under
eighteen were among those less likely to return.  Meanwhile, the
Under Tents Campaign reports that 400,000 Haitians remain
homeless in displacement camps where they face gender-based
violence, disease, unsanitary living conditions, and flooding.
Now, like New Orleans families were forcibly evicted from public
housing, apartments, and eventually FEMA trailers in the months
and years following their disaster, displaced Haitians face
eviction from the camps where t