10 Years After Katrina, Has New Orleans Been Rebuilt, Or Just Gentrified?

10 years after hurricane katrina, New Orleans is booming. Tourism and development are on the rise. New residents are moving in and opening up businesses. The city looks like a success story, but it’s not all good. Before Katrina, it was possible to find affordable rent. Afterward, New Orleans lost 140,000 black residents and thousands of rental units. Income levels are falling while housing prices are skyrocketing. It’s now among the worst U.S. cities for renters. We went there to ask: Is it being rebuilt, or just gentrified?
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[@Jorich196]

"We have lots of people like you" He subliminaly said white people can move to those condos and thats like that in dozens of major city downtown areas

[@reinaguzman9030]

Jordan Richardson they are doing this in DC your right

[@saosalazar5585]

You know if you step your money right you can stay living anywhere really

[@stephaneeh93]

My god I felt that when he said "like you". Lord they are still taking advantage of the destruction and the lower income familys and individuals. Didnt rebuild any of the older or original character. They are flat out admitting that they are catering to people who arent born and raised there. Heartbreaking 😔

[@sophiasmith5949]

The interesting thing is he didn't check her credit or verified her income b4 he already knew he wanted people like her.

[@kelleyannethomas5372]

Jordan Richardson-No he didn't! He said that he was going to rebuild the area into an African-Carribean Paris! If anything when he said to her "people like you", I actually thought that he was implying that White/Caucasian people WOULD NOT really be welcome to live there! I actually thought that he was implying that ONLY POC could move in!

[@delvesdg]

"It feels like you weren't worth the investment." That sentence sums up my aversion towards gentrification.

[@666bleedforme]

+Dawud G Delves Then go live in the new ghetto.

[@atownshawtypimp1]

+W.A. S.P. U r a terrible person

[@666bleedforme]

+Edward Jones I may be terrible but I'm honest. If you do not continue to improve the city that you live in then it will become one big slum.

[@AceTheFox12]

+W.A. S.P. its not a matter of improvement thats the problem, its a matter of saying black people having a good situation is not an incentive to improve or bring in a new job market, but to instead wait until white people move into a neighborhood should you invest in it.

[@reconquista4011]

+Dawud G Delves Anti-gentrification advocates are so ignorant. Why complain about the improvement of a city just because YOU can't afford it? Because you feel you have a right to a neighborhood you grew up in that was destroyed? I'm sorry, did you build the new housing? No? Not only does gentrification improve living conditions of ALL, even the poorer residents that now have to scoot to the outskirts of town (because they now have access to luxuries they never had access to before just a few miles away), but it also creates jobs and income and more overall INVESTMENT into the city, which ultimately affects all facets of New Orleans life.

[@JNeil1975]

Gentrification is happening all over the country.....and hard working, lower income people can’t afford the inflated cost of living....whether black or white! When I was in Nashville a neighborhood known for being a poor white neighborhood was bought out by developers and the poor were wiped out. Where did they go? We don’t know. Gentrification is an issue that low income people are dealing with. All races.

[@Professionaltalent]

Is there any documentation of this or any other poor white cities I would love to learn about that..

[@willowtree5267]

Similiar thing slowly happening in Corvallis, OR, the college town i use to live in when i was going to OSU. A lot of old buildings slowly being removed and replaced with multi-level apartments with exorbitant rent and expensive, trendy stores.

[@travisbrown1737]

It's like you're all lives mattering it

[@andreaberryman5354]

We're just put out onto the streets. Nobody cares.

[@andreaberryman5354]

​@@ProfessionaltalentSpokane. Happening here. Poorer white folks, turning it into rich white folks.

[@agenor12001]

After Katrina people bought a lot of the houses in poor neighborhoods for pennies on the dollar ( mostly white rich) and renovated and then raised the rent to where poor people could not afford it, so poor people had to move to the east and as more people moved out more houses were bought and more whites moved into neighborhoods where pre- Katrina they would not live if you paid them, as normal the rich get richer while the rest just suffer.

[@agenor12001]

James Tee OK you don`t have to shout

[@agenor12001]

James Tolliver lol

[@shyannekpana]

Well it was a bad neighborhood

[@JNeil1975]

There are lots of wealthy black business men and women. Why didn't they buy the real estate since this was obviously a good time to buy real estate?

That's called Gentrification 101.

[@HakimSpokenLewis]

+Aj+ As a Katrina survivor seeing whats happened to the city I loved and was raised in before it was taken away and discarded... is straight up heartbreaking. As if by fighting my daily battle I literally forgot my roots and let it rot. I'm sorry

[@philly09boy]

I love New Orleans there is no city in America like it. But you can't "replace" or "rebuild" N.O. without the Black population. Everything that is synonymous with New Orleans culture is tied into the local black population. Hipsters and $3.00 Po Boys may look nice, but it feels soul less...and we all know that N.O. embodies the word "soul". I would hate for New Orleans to become the new Brooklyn aka a hipster paradise.

[@MsBest450]

D.C has become a hipster paradise and it has lost most of its soul and culture.I can;t even recognize the place any longer.Nothing but young white trust fund kids walking around feeling high and mighty.

[@ghostinc7]

replace /Black/french/ King LA. They need that french history back! We need more mexicans moving in!

[@IslenoGutierrez]

King LA Most of the blacks in New Orleans you see today, replaced the original population of New Orleans, whom the majority were whites. The blacks in New Orleans today, most are those that mass migrated into New Orleans in the 1970’s from outside the city and they replaced the majority white population local to the city. I’m a white Creole, meaning I’m a white person of creole heritage which means I descend from the original settlers of colonial Louisiana. We had a tight knit community in the city and then the mass migration of blacks from outside the city arrived and destroyed our community by replacing most of us, where our families have lived since the founding of New Orleans itself. We are now spread out throughout the metro New Orleans area. How come no one is talking about that? The culture of the city is not black or “soul” culture. It’s a multicultural culture made up of European, African and Native American elements. The poboys you speak of (I wish they were $3, like they were when I was a kid, well that was $5 but close enough) were invented by a white couple from New Orleans and is served on a local version of bread brought with the French people all the way from from France in Europe, which was then altered a bit by an Italian baker to have rounded ends from its pointy ended French origin. Look at Mardi Gras, it’s a custom and tradition brought from France. Look at dishes such as jambalaya which was created by the Spanish in New Orleans. Look at the spice we put in one of our dishes, that we call “filé” (fee-lay) it came from the Native Americans. Those “black Indians” that dress up, they got that from the Native Americans, they have taken on a Native American tradition. Look at Jazz, it’s a fusion of Sicilian brass band wedding and funeral tradition, using European instruments that fused with African rhythms into it. Look at the architecture, it’s a mixture of French and Spanish styles. There are tons of aspects of New Orleans culture that comes from European influence as well as minor Native American influence. African influence is not the only influence in New Orleans and New Orleans culture is certainly not a black culture. Blacks became the majority in 1980 in New Orleans. New Orleans culture existed long before 1980. New Orleans culture started in 1718. For most of its existence since it’s founding, New Orleans has had a white majority. Whites are not foreign to New Orleans, they created it out of swamp land and wilderness. I am happy to see a white population in New Orleans again and I hope it grows to become the majority like it was before. Then maybe the original white New Orleanians currently in refuge in the suburbs will return to the city. I’m not saying get rid of all the black people, but there would be nothing wrong with getting back to New Orleans’ traditional demographic set up where whites were the majority.

[@Dman007]

King LA + it already has bro

[@craz5634]

It literally won’t, I live here and it’s still majority black. People saying New Orleans is so gentrified are really over exaggerating. We still face problems with extreme poverty and lack of jobs.

[@MsGeigei]

I visited recently and it's most definitely gentrified.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

New Orleans has been gentrified before this new gentrification began. In the 1960’s-1980’s, a huge wave of blacks from elsewhere moved into New Orleans and displaced its white majority population to the suburbs. New Orleans was 69% white in 1950, but was 67% black a month before Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It was near total population replacement in just nearly two decades from the 1960’s to the 1980’s as this was the replacement era. You don’t even know about this gentrification because it’s rarely talked about today. The local black population before this huge wave of black gentrification was only 31% in 1950.

[@Jake-rs9nq]

@chrisseh100 White people dare to leave and it's "white flight." White people dare to return and it's "gentrification."

[@brucebeamon5460]

MEANT SPREADING NOT SPEAK ( type-O )

[@geraldkaczmarek626]

I'm here in New Orleans and gentrification has destroyed the city.

[@___zeke___7581]

@@IslenoGutierrez You’re not describing gentrification. What you’re talking about is “White Flight”. When black peoples would start to move into inner city neighborhoods, white people moved to the outer limits of cities and stayed there. There weren’t displaced, nobody forced them to leave. They just didn’t want to live amongst black people. Very on brand for white Americans in 60s, 70s and 80s. This is why suburbs are so popular.

[@sw8330GKEEPER]

4:25 I hope he gets enough money to open the laundromat.

[@swmita]

What about modernizing their Dams ?????

[@victoriouslight3838]

I've learned the importance of saving a dollar .

[@ihatetheworld90]

Same thing is going on here in Corpus Christi Texas. Downtown has been dead since the 90s,and the city decided to develop downtown by building condo "high rises" right near the ghettos raising the already expensive cost of living here. Yeah it's made downtown a lot better,but all of it isn't local whatsoever. Then again my city was never going to revive it self if it wasn't for gentrification.

[@jannettephillips516]

Not black people it was a set up that's why they broke the levie.

[@infinitecuriosity9210]

Very sad that their not bringing New Orleans people an opportunity to return very very horrific for humanity. Very shameful. But the rich and powerful always get their way when will democracy actually work for the people.

[@Sendmetothesky]

Perfect timing Aj, Im heading down to New Orleans in a week, and am curious to explore and ask the real locals whats up

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Hey I’m a real local from New Orleans born and raised, but nobody here is talking about the black gentrification that replaced most of the local whites in New Orleans. Let’s talk about that. New Orleans used to be 69% white in 1950, but was 67% black one month before Katrina in 2005. Thats near total population replacement.

[@bnwo]

Yeah let's build more projects cuz gentrification bad :/

[@lavellekirk9702]

Gentrification is not good and friendly towards the original Black residents, wherever it presents its ugly head!

[@jermen5137]

N.W.A. You missed the point. Smh

[@markbrown5117]

Thanks for this video.

[@dsan5825]

Great report!

[@AndreasA.S.]

the term gentrification is offensive to those willing to put the effort into rebuilding. you have a problem with rents, talk to insurance companies that have quadrupled simple insurance rates, or the city for much higher tax rates than before Katrina. the old housing projects were in dire need of repair and updating which would have cost much more than just building a nicer home. is everyone using the term gentrification saying, "no, lets let the neighborhood just continue to decay and never do anything about it because it may offend someone". i live in mid city New Orleans , i know which end im speaking from. and have rebuilt several lower rent buildings with my family.

[@ghostinc7]

Someone who actual knows what they are talking about. This city is BELOW sea level. If they can build it up and get people to come live there MORE power to them!!

[@destinitaylor8625]

the issue, you're going to predominately and historic black areas of the city , that were rich in culture and driving them out of their own neighborhood. WHY NOT GO TO THE WAREHOUSE DISTRiCT? OR ST. CHARLES??? that's what gentrifying is. I know how much it cost to build a new home, and insure it, y'all are over pricing those cheaply built model homes and you know it. You would have never moved to mid-city if you knew you couldn't low ball its prior residents out of their home. It's greed that fuels these rebuilds. When it's being priced, you know exactly what you're doing. Y'all are drawn to these certain areas because it has a culture you can profit off of. Once you move its original inhabitants out, the culture goes along with it. YOU all only became interested when you saw you could flip the houses or buildings. If it was SUCH a SlUm why move there? The issue with all of this is MOTIVE!! Ya'll invade these neighborhoods and treat the residents like they don't belong there. Thats the issue. The people in the community try to put in an effort, the city and bank only finds the funding when its white investors.............think about that... look up predatory lending

[@unconnected]

Great piece as always, thanks for putting the time into telling this story

[@rhodabaruch4]

Thank you for being blunt about it as we need

[@nicnak2502]

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. 🙄

[@goldenleopard9778]

I knew this would happen.

[@Eric-zi1oz]

Sad that these shops move in and the people that live there cannot afford them.

[@Luke-pd7xj]

I’ll come for one of those apartments⚜️

[@313BlackIce]

Gentrification pretty much

[@KingJonathanThe1st]

And that’s why they had to blow up the levees

[@iamJamesPhelps]

exactly, living here is completely different from the movies.. There's definitely a good time, but also a huge mess

[@arransathananthar2812]

New Orleans. Fight gentrification as hard as you can. Protect your culture!

[@arransathananthar2812]

Dragon1717 I agree. but I want inclusion from the original people. So Stop Gentrfication

[@arransathananthar2812]

***** thats true. but where are these people going to go?

[@arransathananthar2812]

***** but that's what happens everywhere. move the poorer and community based people somewhere else. and the rich move in. Its sad and the destruction of culture

[@arransathananthar2812]

***** maybe that's what progress is. But its sad that we haven't found other ways of dealing with this problem as it is happening all over the world

[@Epimpin101]

+Arran Sathananthar So back in the day when Brooklyn was white, and blacks started moving in. The whites fought against it. And they were considered racist. Also in Europe people have concerns that all these refugees will hurt their culture. But people just call them racist. So when whites protect their culture it is racist. But when blacks do it it's heroic?

[@ContrarianExpatriate]

I love to see the development of formerly rotted out, urban ghettos. Gentrification is a dirty word, but I think it is a net positive. If we can figure out ways to get local poor people to profit from it as well, all the better.

[@daveheel]

projects being destroyed was a good thing as even the tenants were constantly complaining about them. but i do see the hipsters in the uptown/french quarter area. making the new orleans area too expensive for former new orleans residents to live there can't be good.

[@benjaminsmith2287]

I agree. Projects don't work. Let them all be destroyed and replaced with something way better.

[@naturalMe88]

What's the song playing at 0:11?

[@jessegarcia5386]

Its people w money that actually work for a living...There no more hand outs...

[@destinitaylor8625]

not you talking like that with the last name Garcia....lol chillleeeeee..

[@gustavoramirez9638]

Better give them bullet proof vests

[@dsanti4069]

You got to keep up with change . Technology and jobs are constantly changing and it you’re not trying to compete , you’re going to be left behind . It’s happening all over the country . Especially here in Florida .

[@dpg227]

Seems like there's no way to invest in an area without it causing a rise in property values and rents. And that some people who used to complain that there was no investment in their neighborhood are now pissed that the government didn't give them a job and/or a rent controlled apartment so they can continue to live there.

[@victoriouslight3838]

That man restored a house that was about to fall down , damn an eye sore , it was about to fall down and he made it new . Will HE do it ?

[@adamdevulder6612]

Vidéo génial, j'adore les cours d'anglais! Je sens comme un rapport avec l'argent dans cette Vidéo, notamment à propos de Disney land qui renvoi directement à la consommation et à la séparation des classes riches et pauvres !

[@benjaminingram2107]

Im from neworleans they could not wait to gentrify it. When will higher paying jobs comes to those areas without raising cost of living?

[@benjaminsmith2287]

I find nothing nice about St. Roch. It's everything that's wrong with gentrified communities. Overpriced coffee, formulaic decor, no connection or community sense, just a place to go and spend money in a stylized setting. It's like the endless eateries that are in gentrified areas. Few have any soul whatsoever. Hats off to the man who's renovating homes and renting them out and trying to keep a certain community vibe. I tell black people all the time there are people you can work with and people you can't. Some are white, some are other, some are black. Both categories.

[@SaintZombie1]

(June 2020 looking at urban revitalization): Hold my beer. Urban revitalization is a risky investment and short term at best. The recent downtown condo days across America are over. You won't be able to sell them for 1/10th their value soon.

[@Tyra_Richards]

New Orleans I miss ya

[@thegreativan100]

You need higher income people to come into the city to collect taxes. There is more incentive for the city as a whole to have higher income people to come in and pay taxes.

[@shauncameron8390]

Exactly.

[@Joebius1]

Does anyone know if the tune playing at 0:12 was in a Saints Row game?

[@PFAlt]

+Rebuilt Gearbox doesn't ring a bell for me. I didn't play the original though, so it might be in the first one, the xbox exclusive one.

[@Joebius1]

MeGusta GameStation I was thinking a clothes store from the Third.

[@tonibryan3199]

I'm still trying to figure that out.

[@pytko3]

I'm glad New Orleans is recovering. Why is the woman complaining? The city looks great.

[@gameboyhotline3712]

She's complaining because she feels that the poor and minority groups are being left out of the new development

[@pytko3]

Caleb Rodregez What to they contribute?

[@gameboyhotline3712]

+pytko3 1 they are humans and you are a human and it's in human nature to help each other because if we don't our society and everything we worked for will fall 2. They lived there first and they are the reason New Orleans got popular, they make New Orleans food, they made New Orleans culture, they made New Orleans fun and different, 3. People knew that land was cheap and wrongfully ( morally wrong ) brought their land from under their feet

[@ulovetashi]

Who cares if the city looks good when people who was born and raised there are forced out. Nothing good comes from Gentrification. I've lived in New York City my entire life and gentrification is so real over here. The city is drastically different and people are unhappy and working 3 jobs to make rent. This is SAD SAD SAD. I've watched first hand what gentrification does to people and a community. There's no culture anymore because there's no diversity. People are slowly becoming segregated.

[@billykobilca6321]

pytko3 Nope...looks don't mean shit. The culture is gone, the flavor is stale...it's become BORING. BORING, and corporate mahogenie. McOrleans.

[@fuzzymohawk478]

it's because of these builders it makes it awful to rent

[@silntwaves]

another freedom March is starting... we need to all come together black people (:

[@CrazyGuyStudios1]

Some places have changed but there’s still a high murder rate.

[@markbrown5117]

Create a go fund me for this enterprising man.

[@MrDonya2392]

I'm not from there but I love they city just appeal to me I don't know why coming from Philly

[@kendellfriend5558]

The Whole Foods just summed it all up!

[@michaelreed4744]

Hello. Do you think that some of the stories of Whole Foods and gentrification are myths?

[@kendellfriend5558]

@@michaelreed4744 no. Well maybe. Not in Philly though babes.

[@M0ebius]

Mixed feelings. The new neighborhood certainly looks much nicer. And if you bring in a bunch of lower income blacks all the middle class whites will just move out again and the neighborhood turns into a slum. To be honest when I was in my mid-twenties I liked living in diverse neighborhoods. But now that I have kids, I am always going to invest in places that are nice and safe for children, which generally equates to being white and affluent. The real issue is obviously money. And without education and middle-class jobs, fixing up houses and renting them out on the cheap will only go so far.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

M0ebius New Orleans used to be majority white and largely affluent for hundreds of years and in 1980, it became majority black.

[@destinitaylor8625]

Gentrification is some what slowing down, certain areas you simply can't gentrify, half the people that bought up these houses either sold them for a fraction of the cost, or renting them out because they were shunned/outcasted/ or targeted in the neighborhood. I just purchased a home in st.roch and they didn't make it everywhere. Once a lot of the poc homeowners found out how they were getting low balled out of their property, they held on or sold it themselves for the proper profit so they could begin to build wealth. The city officials just found out that most of those affordable newly built houses that were supposed to be sold to people in the area went to white people from out of town, who lied and used relatives addresses out here to move into them.That's the issues locals have with gentrification. They are cheating their way into resources meant for people of the area. There was also a rise in poc middle class in New Orleans over the last 5 years, so now I see more black and brown people buying and affordably flipping properties in the city to help fight the efforts to displace them. Plus, the original people of the neighborhood found a few techniques of they own to keep it at bay. lol We don't like gentrifiers that come in and segregate themselves. The only ones that survive give back to the neighborhood they chose to live in. Like the owner of Baldwin and Co. and a few others I know who are helping fight back. My fiancé and I started giving low cost credit repair and credit counseling to help people stay and own homes in their own neighborhood.

[@sunnydelight4991]

Somebody say 3 dollar poboy?

[@MxdBrd1]

The filming of the black natives in wife beaters outside the liquor store was a bad choice. You had better film, but chose not to use it. sad

[@rrobertsnot5150]

MxdBrd1 why hide the truth?

[@billhannaford4488]

but that's what it looks like. Why hide it? That's the reality in many parts of New orleans Have you ever been there?

[@ghostinc7]

Hmm We need to gentrify some of these old southern towns. That have rich history. That are being overrun with slums and buildings going to waste. Get people with money moving in. protect these treasures!

[@firebaby7]

so where's brad pitt, to help that guy expand a grocery store?

[@hexkwondo]

There's like no black customers. Camera pans to a black lady sitting right behind her. Hmmm...

[@LyricsThatFly]

Lil Peep Peep she said they found one but she was filling out a job application lol

[@skipsassy1]

renters "have no skin in the game" anywhere. End of story. This is global. Incentives to fix up other peoples property - get real.

[@StevonStevons]

Need to fact check all of this. There seems to be very little data behind the opinions of the people interviewed in this video-none of them seem to be thought leaders by any means

[@KNightRider504]

It's gentrified. Most of these "rebuilt" places were in poor urban neighborhoods. Now, those same neighborhoods are selling houses in $300-400k, sometimes higher, which is way above what people who originally stayed in those neighborhoods can afford. I feel as though New Orleans is an obvious case of gentrification, and it cannot be denied because it's so in your face.

[@lsowner10]

The levy failed on purpose for this fact!

[@Santana2163]

+Pixie Perfect There was video of Bush being informed about the levies and Hurricane Katrina. He did nothing yet black folks down there were all too happy to take pictures with him smfh

[@Santana2163]

***** He was advised to reinforce the levies before Katrina hit and he said No.

[@lsowner10]

***** are you really attempting to downplay the truth in lieu of Bush II? Can you explain how we couldn’t get more equipment in the get those folks out of those cities...but we can take equipment into Iraq in record time?

[@gokaren420]

@Cory Dunn we believe they're all powerfully evil

[@starter488]

This is what's happening in Santa Barbara, CA. Really dis-like the fake, rich (mostlywhite) outsiders :(

[@bnwo]

+Marco A Santa Barbara is plenty rich and white already, fool.

[@Shiwanokia-oo1nq]

+Marco A oh yeah, but if white people complain about the problems blacks bring to their neighborhood blacks cry racism. WTH?

[@starter488]

Shiwanokia Actually im not black its just pic. Im chumash, and as long as you havent gone through hardships (generations) or been to SB through its major changes i dont think you understand.

[@ihatetheworld90]

+Marco A The whole west coast is one fake,rich(mostlywhite) outsiders

[@ulovetashi]

Call me crazy but too many people said they heard those levees explode and blow up. Some like to say it was the intense water rushing against them, others totally disagree and stand by their story. Now it's 2018 and the black population is almost gone and the housing projects are gone. All new townhouses , apartments, and other developments are everywhere and only 5% go towards affordable housing. Maybe they did explode after all and this was the plan. It's sad that after Katrina so many black people died or was placed in different states rather than being placed in other areas in Louisiana that wasn't impacted with flooding and water damages. People have even stated that prior to the rainstorm, when trying to enter white neighborhoods they was shot at with guns and brushed off when they was trying to get away from the storm. New Orleans did those people dirty just for financial gain for the city. Those same black people they are neglecting in New Orleans actually made New Orleans what it had become, with the music, the culture, the food, and so on. Without them, New Orleans is just a place with no soul and will not be appealing.

[@paulsaul8155]

They want it to be like LA and I'm not mad at them .

[@rtswift]

so did some one destroy the levees on purpose?

[@delvesdg]

+rtswift Or are fully exploiting the happenstance.

[@rtswift]

+Dawud G Delves yeah who knows(and we will probably never know)? it is just odd that some accounts say they heard explosion.

[@delvesdg]

***** I agree that we may never know. But, the term explosion is very vague. I can imagine that millions of gallons of water slamming against, compromising, and rupturing a metal levee system would not be anywhere near ,.... quiet.

[@rtswift]

Dawud G Delves yeah in a state of panic peoples accounts are definitely skewed.

[@delvesdg]

***** 100%

[@666bleedforme]

Where did the comments go?

[@patriotretiree903]

Not sure how this young lady thinks cities and towns can offer any services with only unemployed, underemployed, or low wage employed residents. Cities and schools depend on the revenue from its residents and the businesses that cater to those residents. Cities and towns do need to ensure there is decent affordable housing for low wage workers and it sounds like the rebuilding has included mixed housing to fit those needs. Honestly, she sounded like she wanted slums built, like that is all the low wage earner deserved. Another issue that creates higher costs for both the home owner and renter is ever increasing taxes and insurance rates. Lowering the taxes and the insurance rates will help make housing more affordable.

[@JNeil1975]

Saying there are no black customers in the market? What's the point? Black people are perfectly able to go to that market if they want to. No one is stopping them. Asking "where are the black people" is yet another attempt to make something racist when racism is not involved. If a $3 po-boy is what you're looking for, you're in the wrong place, dear.

[@atrandom8014]

Some of those folks needed to get out of those crappy ghettos. it was bad for them and new orleans. Both deserve better.

[@TheSunshaii]

Ansel! He was my teacher!

[@thesoundofthesuburbs]

Um, little kid on skateboard smoking cigarette...

[@Reverend-Race-Horsey]

The levees were blown up.

[@billykobilca6321]

New Orleans is not the same. It's gotten BORING and UNCULTURED. LOST ITS CHARACTER ALL TOGETHER. WHO wants boring corporate logos of homogeneous crap I such such ONCE RICH CULTURED AND DIVERSITY CITY. DULL BORING AND ICKIE

[@billykobilca6321]

WORDto BIGbird The city simply is NOT the same....like u just said...BORING stale, gentrification. ...and sputnik classes CLASHES type.

[@billhannaford4488]

Spanish and French didn't steal anything. They designed and built the beautiful architecture in the city while people in Africa were still living in straw huts....... Later Carribean and African cultures influenced food and music along with the French....Quit with the "we was KINGZ" mentality.

[@tikilanichols8023]

Dis city washed up and out ya heard meh...no mo New Orleans...at least what I remember during 80's and 90's... those were the golden years...I miss them days ya😔

[@ImNotBatman750]

Why does no one ever ask the sad honest question of " is a city built below sea level worth saving? " with rising sea levels and the other influences impacting ALL of America's iconic coastal cities. I think a better question to ask is, Is New Orleans worth saving? I do not mean that in a indifferent kind of way, it's heart breaking to see how these people are being effected BUT we can't think so micro.

[@darkbloodgt6577]

both

[@williamthomas1]

What a total SCAM

[@Spiderman1238.]

Damn

[@wbarke1]

Slightly dishonest

[@samfutch8994]

Sooo, the owners of the homes that stood before Katrina should have rebuilt (and henceforth upgrade) without increasing the rent?

[@shermdub27]

People from New Orleans should have used that FEMA money to rebuild the community. They can sit here and act like they tried but no one tried to buy the properties when the city was auctioning them off. Houses were abandoned and never claimed which were sold for cheap prices.. Now developers came and bought it and built what they wanted. If you don't love it you'll lose it and that's what happened here.

[@Marcus-vi9gu]

What FEMA Money? That was a lie they gave that to ppl who didn't need it like the white ppl

[@Marcus-vi9gu]

No matter what u think this wasn't our fault we didn't tell them to bomb the levis. We wasn't the ones lied about the levees come to find out they didn't build the levees right

[@shermdub27]

They didn't and thousands lost their lives because of it but the people of New Orleans continue to put their lives in the hands of the ones who want them gone. Period. People from New Orleans need to get more involved yet the parents let the youngsters roam around like idiots. Teach them what to do to not let it happen again. And bull crap on that FEMA topic, folks was running around like it was a game spending that money on rims and cars. Everybody was ballin and I witnessed it with my own eyes and ears. They dropped the ball, now pick that bish up and don't drop it this time.

[@Marcus-vi9gu]

Man it's a lot of crooked stuff going on with that they want this to be a rich white city they taking away the culture that was here that.the government police DA Judge just everything messed up even if u vote. Plus they carry u seen u to jail and that decrease voting laws

[@shermdub27]

Yeah it is bad but you know that "crab in a buck" mentality is alive and well. Black folk hate on each other hard in the N.O. If they can focus on rebuilding at least for the kids and future generation it would be a lot better but too many people out for self. They would rather go to the white markets instead of hitting up an up in coming black business. I mean WeDat Food truck coming up but black folk take notes they should running the service industry not just working in it.. Almost ALLLLL the cooks and help are Black. Choose a market and master that bih.

[@thesoundofthesuburbs]

Gentrification is good for property owners and neighborhood residents. That is why you need to get on the property ladder. I feel sorry for those that are displaced, but people should live where they can afford to.

[@jermen5137]

The Sounds of the Suburbs they were living where they could....gentrification in general happens when people purposely raise the prices in order to remake neighborhoods so they can become more "friendly" and safe. You sound so stupid. They literally just talked about how they used to live their and their homes were torn down so they are now displaced. That was their home and now it just benefits the more wealthy. Smh learn somethin

[@bobv8219]

what no handouts I don't have a job but I should be able to live there right

[@johnpressurewashingpaintin9066]

Things in life and struggle to them is not weather they spend they last on food because they haven't ate in two days or spend it on a gun to rob and hopefully get a next meal but there struggle is weather there going to get enough A'.s to make it into the Prominent college that there dad likes to see them go which they know would make him proud.A life where there mother is not a hoe and therefore not left and abandoned with kids for being so but rather she is a respected woman and a life where there dad they barley know but is someone in the house every night who is real close. and if i ever need to call on god,Jesus i know hell answer my prayer but in they heart they know they father is already there........Don't let the history of slavery break down your will to be a father..use it to make steel and strength to your plans to break these unwanted cycle of chains.

[@truthscorner9171]

lol 3:41 they looked so hard for that shot

[@iamkatykabha]

This is going to be Hawaii soon

[@dubreil07]

Afro Caribbean?

[@smc1774]

I would love to move to New Orleans and experience the growth of the city.👍

[@ulovetashi]

SAD

[@geebee6010]

You can thank the liberals for gentrification. Us Conservatives aren't moving back to the cities we love it out here in the sticks.

[@shauncameron8390]

The very same liberals that the people getting priced out voted for en masse.

[@IamGodlyy1]

u remind me of rashida jones

[@RetroHabit82]

Just stay out of Memphis.

[@kevinhawkinberry3654]

sorry the wanna make a low income city be better could u have found anyone more hood looking to ask about jobs no offense just saying

[@ons-sb8jj]

who rebulit. brown pride🇮🇹

[@h.o.p.efoundation8908]

Explains why only a certain section of the city was flooded, follow the $$$$

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Afro Caribbean? Man what about the French and Spanish? And the Italians and German? And Jews and Irish? New Orleans is a mixed European-African-Native American culture and city. And yes, there are locals moving into these nice homes, but they are white locals, among the newcomers we call "carpetbaggers". This video doesn't talk about this but New Orleans was a majority white city in the 70s and most of these blacks were not in those neighborhoods back in the 50s/60s. Out of 298 years, whites were the majority for 230 years from 1718-1809 and 1840-1979. Blacks were the majority for 65 years, 1810-1839 and 1980-2017. So whites are the historical majority of New Orleans. This video seems to not know this and is slanted toward blacks being the original locals when that's simply not true. In the 1950 census, New Orleans was 69% white and 31% black. So there was a mass migration of blacks into the city in the 60s-70s-80s. Whites fled this black gentrification to the nearby suburbs mainly and since 1980, New Orleans has been majority black. So this video portrays white people as foreign to New Orleans when in fact whites created the city, most of its architecture, most of its food, they gave New Orleans Mardi Gras and the iconic Fleur de lis symbol you see all over the city, not to mention 3 languages over 300 years (French,Spanish,English) and have contributed to a very large share of the culture. So this video is an inaccurate portrayal of what New Orleans is and was. At 70% white near the 50s,60s, I'd say this videos history of New Orleans is way off. There has always been a sizable black population, but for most of New Orleans' existence they have been a minority near 30%. This video is biased and inaccurate. Sorry, I wanted to be positive but the video is negative toward my people (I'm a descendant of the original population).

[@crimepays8358]

El Matador lies Its Haitian-spanish-african american, not white people

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Ms. San Slaves only built some of it, and they followed designs put together by colonists. Besides aristocratic French/Spanish, there were also blue collar French/Spanish that were tradesmen and they built a ton of buildings in New Orleans. True, the Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land mass of New Orleans, but not the original inhabitants of the actual city of New Orleans as it was a European creation created by French and Spanish colonists.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Xavi Alexis What, the culture or inhabitants? There were Haitians yes, many white Haitians fleeing the slave revolt of Haiti, mulattoes from Haiti called free people of color and black slaves from Haiti. But there were many others in New Orleans also. There where whites, whom where French and Spanish, and there was a wave of whites from Italy, Germany and Ireland that arrived in the Antebellum period. The French, Spanish and Africans were from the colonial period. Jews also were in New Orleans from various parts of Europe. There was also a few Cubans that came as well. In the beginning of the Antebellum period, there were waves of whites that arrived from other parts of the US. They settled Uptown. There was a wave of African-Americans from other parts of the south that arrived in the late 20th century following white flight to the suburbs and new civil rights laws. Now, there are whites moving in from other states. New Orleans have many influences and is still evolving. But New Orleans culture much more complex than what you have described. It is mainly a mix of French, Spanish, African, Haitian, Italian, German, Irish, Native American, as well as the American south, but with minor influences from Jews, Acadians, Cubans, Croatians. It's a very mixed culture. It's multicultural and shared by all those whose ancestors have settled the greater New Orleans area.

[@crimepays8358]

El Matador well damn expert. My bad iguess.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Xavi Alexis I am a bit of an expert. I'm a local New Orleanian, a white Creole person and I descend from the colonial population of the city. I've studied the history of my people and my city for many years. I try to put accurate information out there, because there are many people putting out inaccurate information.

[@user-pz8yd5jg7y]

THE NEW PLANTATION

[@kayode50]

Why is less Projects bad? Get and education, get a career join the middle class and stop crying.

[@666bleedforme]

+kayode kasali No dey's gonna be rap stars or play in da NBA. Maybe the join the National Felons League and catch da football.

[@Burntrocity]

+kayode kasali Im not saying i like the idea but "the projects" is about affordability. Lower class and poor demographic cant afford to live in higher classes, even a difference of 5000$ a year can make a hell of a difference.

[@larsattack]

+W.A. S.P. Why do white people do that?

[@666bleedforme]

+larsattack That's the way coloureds like to be portrayed, as thugs. There are non thugs out there but they aren't the ones in the media. Stay in school., learn to speak proper English and stop blaming everything on slavery.

[@anslemromero2149]

+W.A. S.P. slavery is the seminal catastrophe for blacks alot of issues today can be blamed on slavery so yea shut up

[@ans05]

Hit peice

[@TheMusicvideoVEVO]

i guess its been gentrified. anyway Jesus loves you!

[@johnpalmerjr2611]

Lies

[@victoriouslight3838]

Flip.