'They became white neighborhoods almost overnight' - Katrina supercharged N.O. gentrification

Gentrification has swept across America. Historically Black communities have made a dramatic shift in demographics across the board. New Orleans is no different.

[@Woke365]

I blame the black politicians in New Orleans for selling out their citizens to developers. Black mayors and black council members in the city are to blame.

[@OhyesSofresh]

Yep

[@666BeatingStation-vo7zc]

After Katrina your mayor said he didn't want poor people in the city anymore. It's not just Black politicians it's also a Democrat corruption issue.

[@Akirenolye_]

Yep and Nagin over here hiding out in Texas.

[@CedAnt-ws3bv]

The Congressional Black Caucus is a puppet show. They voted to give Ukraine 🇺🇦 a hundred billion dollars 💵

[@brucegreen5781]

lol it became Trump country over night⚪️🗑️💩🤡👿

[@Grayald]

Meanwhile my city became ghettofied after Katrina. Used to be able to leave your house open while you were at work. Now you can't even have a lawn ornament in your yard without it getting stolen.

[@Billiepippen]

thars your counity fault for keping so any in poverty. you dont want to share th wealth and power with black people

[@olzt100]

That's capitalism 101. Tell us how we create millionaires without creating poverty? One takes from the other and then the other retaliates. Society has been dumbed downed to believe that the one that throws the second punch started the fight and is the problem.

[@Billiepippen]

@@olzt100 we dont need millionaires.

[@olzt100]

@@Billiepippen Exactly! But we have millionaires because we don't like the truth of human equality. No matter what title gained or how much money made, we all return to dust.

[@Billiepippen]

@@olzt100 no. your community does not like human equality. long before racism you had feudalism and royalty lording over others. race is just an extension of that tribal hierarchical mindset your community enforces

[@omefea8501]

I’ve been here fifteen years. The rent has doubled. And the pay, not so much. I’m single without kids and I gotta work a lot a lot to get everything paid, but I make it happen. I can’t imagine being with family or vehicle or using a/c or not being able to work several jobs as I do. It’s true in many places. It’s not easy. It sucks to see people struggle anywhere. And New Orleans is so tight and loving. Most people powerful place I’ve lived. It would be great is we could make these connections to help keep the families here and together that have been for so long, if they wish to. My closest family is 1,000 miles away. The family unit in New Orleans is special. I’ve had a lot of great people treat me good. There has got to be a better way, across the board. Peace

[@tamradillonittybittysiddit1536]

They wanting to land a grab & go thats how they operate RACIST WYT people

[@PatS.1976]

Demographics in neighborhoods in New Orleans are in a constant flux. They didn’t name the Irish channel the Irish channel because it was mostly black. Algiers was 80% white until the 2000s now most neighborhoods are 60% or more black. We’ve been in flux for over 300 years. Ask your Italian grandma who lived in the French Quarter in the 1940s how manyf French people still lived there

[@lilolmejusayin8671]

Exactly! No has s right to any neighborhood staying the same.

[@andresbraud]

I didn’t know we could post comments that made sense.

[@kusheran]

Segregating neighborhoods by race is all illegal now. Progress!? Today, to keep the races apart, segregation is done by income. And gentrification is good for Wall St. (bad for Main St). Feels like 'antebellum' all over again. The whole point is that people are trying to keep neighborhoods (white) from changing by using gentrification. Gentrification is the new segregation. Because controlling neighborhood demographics (systemic racism by red lining) is illegal now, gentification is another South will rise again / MAGA fail.

[@WhatYaReading]

Exact. Change is the only constant in life.

[@thames308]

Thank you for bring this up. Gentrification has affected various ethnic and racial groups in New Orleans over the last 120 years. This has really changed the cultural landscape and food culture. And churches and other cultural organizations.

[@johnvseverybody3]

My version of New Orleans washed away when Katrina happened,my city will never be the same again 😢

[@wessleydorsey]

actually new orleans was changing way before hurricane katrina.....alot of the stores that we had loved to go to back in the days were long gone....

[@renegarcia-hayes4209]

Unfortunately, for a city to move forward, a certain demographic has to move out in order to make the area more livable and cities to afford to prosper

[@xanselmox]

"Imagine a news title saying "They became black neighborhoods almost overnight", PLUS how far do you want to go back because originally NOLA was white so whats the issue? The cost of living is up everywhere people..

[@tempgirl00711]

The title does make it all about race. when the story appears to be all about class. not race. those who can afford to buy, will buy and those who can't will need to move. not blacks need to move, whites need to move, asians need to move. just class levels. u buy u stay, u can't u move. doesn't matter what race u are.

[@VaunXox]

You aren't oppressed.

[@xanselmox]

@@VaunXox actually we all are. Unless you're in that 1%. Let me guess, you are because of your skin right?

[@skip031890]

​@@VaunXox Neither are you. 🙄

[@kimbermichelle3922]

My mortgage went from $514.00 to damn near $900 bucks!

[@tc2541]

While in Canada I'm hitting almost 3500. It's ruff.. Smh.

[@tempgirl00711]

Do you have an adjustable rate mtg or something? those def go up. and keep on going up? but a fixed rate mtg is good maybe u can refinance to get under a different program or something?

[@missf4681]

That's every where

[@user-qn1kz7dk3t]

I pay 900 for just a room nevermind a house. I live in Massachusetts.

[@iMatti00]

🤯 @6:22 ~ She’s not very intelligent, I guess. And she views everybody is victims, well “some“ people are victims. Nobody came in and took the homes, they bought them from somebody at a fair price, they fix them up, they made the neighborhoods better, brought in business and opportunities, and so the price goes up. That’s not stealing land.

[@chriskobler3352]

In other words the neighbor hood improved, crime went down, stores started opening, the economy worth went up

[@skip031890]

Yep.

[@tempgirl00711]

did the crime go down? sorry have to ask

[@skip031890]

Of course it did.

[@lisai8455]

This would never be a reported story if it was the other way around.

[@Neppy1414]

seriously??? 😒

[@alfavulcan4518]

Imagine a news report complaining about historically white neighborhoods being transformed….never gonna happen

[@cleanthestreets9564]

And the crime/murder rates plummeted didn't it?

[@nicholasholiday941]

For a while.

[@debbiedebbie9473]

Who wants to live in an area that's going to flood again anyway. It's stupid.

[@stonedout6951]

Oh no, the horror! 🙄

[@aubsta1]

LOL

[@user-gc1dl5ji9i]

Katrina residents bailed out of the area after the storm. They asked for relocation & received help to do get moved. Now going to complain? Everyone is having trouble getting by. Someone else is always responsible...

[@BattleOfBowties]

Some how none of these people decided to buy after Katrina when property was damn near given away.

[@yakzivz1104]

this is what i was wondering

[@lql1094]

Buy WITH WHAT --their looks?

[@BattleOfBowties]

​@@lql1094 Most received large sums from FEMA!

[@isbsjxbxns]

I wish i had money to buy

[@tempgirl00711]

no not their looks every state and city has zero down home loan programs, where they pay the down payment and the closing costs. so basically nothing. so what's the excuse for everyone not investing in their own community. they even had some programs where if u purchase, then you got a huge azz check during tax season, president obama created it. when they were pushing everyone towards homeownership... @@lql1094

[@StrugglerIndeed]

The lack of economic development expedited the process. It could not be more simple.

[@goodmeasure777]

Why are people wearing masks?

[@surviveunplugged]

The costs to upgrade a community are recouped in the resulting inceases in the cost of housing. It also increases property values because its not a ghetto any more. My old neighborhood in Los Angeles was gentrifide. It's better for my dad because the neighborhood is a lot safer AND the value of his home skyrocketed. In every game there are "winners and losers". It all boils down to how one positions oneself in the economy. Renters are usually at the bottom. Strive to own and you'll be better positioned to weather storms.

[@cydonia3167]

The same thing happened in my neighborhood. 15 years ago, the city came through and demolished a lot of structurally unsound homes, sold those lots for $1 and provided no interest loans to people who wanted to purchase the remaining homes and renovate them. Many of my neighbors purchased their homes for $15,000 and did most of the renovations themselves. The neighborhood is still predominantly black and now there is a thriving small main street 3 blocks away with mostly black owned businesses. Long time and generational residents have greatly benefited as the neighborhood is a great place to be, to raise children in, and the people who weathered the storm have seen an ASTRONOMICAL increase in their property values. Capitalism is what it is. There will always be winners and losers. Those who take chances are usually the ones who get ahead.

[@bijjames]

Yeah… it’s weird seeing the city now. No one was born in New Orleans anymore. These new folks are like clones, or robots.

[@benjaminingram4857]

They forget the people who were good and follow all rules but now can't afford to stay.

[@VereDeVere]

Practically every community that was ‘historically black’ was previously historically white. Why is it always considered a tragedy when a historically black community becomes white, but the transformation of a historically white community into a black one is never presented as a bad thing? Pure hypocrisy. Gentrification is a net positive, with benefits for black property owners who would be able to sell their homes at extremely competitive prices. The fact that renters may not benefit (but landlords certainly do) is neither here nor there. Simply go and rent in a neighbourhood you can afford. If you don’t like that then learn to live with it because that’s what being a renter means.

[@trese2658]

Because white people CHOOSE to move out. When black people moved in the cost of living area didn’t not increase.

[@clydedenby1436]

So, it's safer now?

[@drarbo1]

So my Mom grew up in the seventh ward, right next to Jaeger's seafood. For years we were there for Christmas, t-giving, visiting all the time, a neighborhood that surely changed black. Nobody cried about it, just accepted it. Now it's changing back, and somehow it's a problem?

[@ranajohnson9995]

Who was on the land in the 1500s😮

[@drarbo1]

@@ranajohnson9995Indians, maybe. What’s the point?

[@ranajohnson9995]

@@drarbo1 we “blacks” are the indigenous people we were already here

[@drarbo1]

@@ranajohnson9995Yeah that’s the me Afrocentric theory. That’s not true. In any case, if it were, that doesn’t entitle you or anyone to the land or city. Good luck with that one. If there was no western slavery, there would not be any Africans in the western hemisphere. There weren’t any when Europeans got here.

[@Sesca026]

No one cried about it? 😂 The neighborhoods “changed black” because ya momma and them didn’t want to live around black people, thence “white flight” occurred.

[@bayougtr]

Still playing the blame game

[@benjaminingram4857]

Better should not have to mean being priced out.

[@drjekelmrhyde]

I don't mind this, but every few years after you move in, you're the target. Gentrfied neighborhoods in Chicago and Oakland are feeling the impact right now.

[@gwenjones667]

I remember when those same neighborhoods were white and overnight became black ...if you remember, raise your hand ✋️

[@vinny-is-here]

Can you explain in detail how it happened? I'm too young to remember.

[@gwenjones667]

@vincentupsdell1 the whites moved away because of crime...Mardi Gras parades use to go down St.Claude and pass rampant and dumaine, just like the song said...that all stopped when shootings began...I went to school with blacks and we had no problem until they bused kids in from the projects and then the turf wars began...what more do you want to know? It was a time when unwed mothers were frowned upon...it was considered a disgrace for a man to not marry the woman and help support the family...today, not knowing who your daddy is and mothers and fathers not caring about causes problems for children single mothers don't want to realize and admit and that goes for white unwed mothers as well.

[@vinny-is-here]

@@gwenjones667 Thank you for telling me. I appreciate it.

[@gwenjones667]

@@vinny-is-here you're welcome, God bless

[@skip031890]

✋🏿

[@skeezenutz]

Wheres the other parts to this story, should be linked in description smh 🤦

[@kingsOnSetKOS]

Cost of living will continue to go up while wages will remain the same the mathe ain't adding up thats what the people need to argue this next presidential election 2024 👀🤫💯

[@Fern.99]

Working class of every color are priced out. Common in many cities. WWL why frame everything through the lens of color? Create unity, not division. Many are struggling rn

[@DixiePokerAce]

Working class? Where? In the hood the vast majority of the men are unemployable criminals. They aren't working anywhere. The women support them but I don't understand why.

[@kyshac81]

There is nothing unifying about pricing people out.

[@Billiepippen]

why do you dismiss black people issues evrytime?

[@Fern.99]

@@Billiepippen I live in a multi-racial family & dismiss no one. As should wwltv, imo.

[@Billiepippen]

@@Fern.99 we are talking about black people. ca you?

[@chrislynch8914]

Why does she need vouchers?

[@tempgirl00711]

exactly.... why are WE paying for her housing?? seriously. why? She looks healthy enough to work a second and third job. We all can't get a nice cool apartment downtown new orleans. so if u can't afford it then move where u can. it's a big place down there. go where u can afford to pay ur own rent. why are tax payers footing that bill?

[@NazaireDragonash]

So,.....The complaint is, from what I understand, is that folks are mad that these neighborhoods are becoming clean, rebuilt, and businesses moving in as a result? Homes are being renovated instead of being allowed to fall down around the people living in them. I get that people want and NEED affordable housing. I am disabled and living in a RV on my Mothers property. But seriously folks, you can't blame others for making things BETTER lmao get a grip.

[@ryanohara1320]

This notion by WWL is also racist against black people because it assumes that they can never do better.

[@kusheran]

Blame is a victim's game. Prepare to buy a block of cheap property right after the next Katrina. No more economic self-victimization because poverty is usually a lifestyle!

[@NawlinstoVegas]

Amen!!

[@benjaminingram4857]

You must not been listening becoming better should not mean being priced out

[@NawlinstoVegas]

@@benjaminingram4857 That's the dumbest argument I've ever heard. Yes It does. Housing prices are determined based on value. The better the property condition the higher the price goes. Condition is everything. Go watch an episode of zombie house flipping and learn.

[@greanhare5270]

"Here comes the neighborhood"

[@raeyearnd3260]

Sounds like what is going on in Galveston. It is intentional.

[@thinkaboutit.2997]

You people wearing masks outside. Why?

[@LMan-by6mb]

That was the plan.

[@skip031890]

Is this supposed to be terrible? I'm not understanding the supposed distress here. 🤔

[@aubsta1]

Sooooo, those neighborhoods improved...

[@skip031890]

Yep.

[@NawlinstoVegas]

My Mother who is Caucasian lived in the Lafitte Housing units in the 40's and 50's what happed reverse Gentrification. Now this lady uses verbage like "Swiped" To describe someone who pays for real estate? What happens when the poor move in? Crime!! I grew up in New Orleans east in the 70's. What's there now? Stop this whining. They are fixing up a third world city? Do a story on How N.O. East went from a nice middle class suburb to a crime infested mess, we watched the Plaza die on the vine.

[@bluewolfserene5921]

True. The housing projects was actually built for the whites. When Bestie hit we had to move in those projects. Y’all did swipe places with us. You know it.

[@ranajohnson9995]

Y’all act like you don’t know the history! This was our land first! You guys enslaved us, when freed you wouldn’t allow us to buy property in decent neighborhoods when desegregation happened you guys ran to the suburbs “White Flight” and implemented red lining and other barriers so stop acting like like y’all not the problem

[@yeerrr2726]

All Caucasian do is steal, property & land this is WELL documented 🤣

[@god563616]

Why do blk people hate gentrification? My grandmothers neighborhood over time became hood and run down and now she lives in a beautiful gentrified neighborhood and her home looks great and she is way happier! Its not taking away from the culture its beautifying it! Not all Change is BAD! I pray the community breaks this mindset of not wanting to move forward in Jesus name!

[@DixiePokerAce]

Because they livin that thug life preserving the "culture" of poverty, government assistance, crime, and blight. They more worried about dancing at a 2nd line parade than they are about improving their community.

[@WSNight-]

your uneducated go be with your colon freinds

[@daddy9925]

When yt people gentrify a neighbourhood, the prices of everything in that neighbourhood go up. Real estate, food, medical care, education, legal representation, childcare…everything. But the wages don’t increase, and the folks that were already there before can no longer afford to live there.

[@om-nj2hw]

Cause they miss their getto

[@americanindian5259]

Gentrification is meant to destroy the culture and lives of so called black folk. While it is meant to cater to white folk

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

New Orleans: one hurricane ruined me Miami: Cubans exist.

[@nicholasholiday941]

Ah, the joys of free market capitalism. If it is not illegal, go on and do whatever the market will bear. I no longer live in New Orleans and it pains me to see it evolve into what it has become. People sitting in the gentrified St Roch Market sipping macchiato while folks are being gunned down blocks away. We have similar gentrification where I live but fortunately there is less to ruin. Recently our mayor and his lackeys celebrated the construction of an apartment building which was "AFFORDABLE"!.... $1600 for four hundred square feet with almost no windows and no parking. This is in a town with a 24.32 % poverty rate. This trash heap of a building looks like what the Fischer projects may have looked like the day they were built. Except they were actually subsidized. It's happening everywhere but it kills me as re New Orleans. And for all you boosters, stop with the bullshit about the inevitability of it all as if it wasn't the result of multiple forces some of which can be controlled.

[@kusheran]

I wonder if it is realistic to expect to be a single parent. Most cannot afford it. Marriage counseling may be more economical.

[@tempgirl00711]

Being a single parent got played out back in the 80's, nobody cares about that anymore. it's a negative now. in fact should be ashamed to use it as an excuse. seriously, that's a personal problem we don't care how many kidz u poppin out raising this is business. that's just an excuse. if singing is not enough money, then get another job that is. or get a 2nd job that covers that shortage. or take a trade that'll pay what u need. nursing or something. or move to a more affordable place. pretty sure, there are cheaper places to live where u don't need to be downtown new orleans. Louisiana is a big place. if u can't afford it then move where u can.

[@cbonita3532]

This is the formula. It has been working and it will keep working. Welcome to Capitalism. Hate it or love it, it’s not going to stop. One word ADAPT. Learn to play, or get played.

[@readhistory2023]

Only doubling? They should count their blessings. Seattle's average housing price in 2005 was $260,000. In 2024 it's $664,000. Housing prices everywhere have gone up.

[@nottodaytvjones4387]

I'm a survivor hurricane Katrina I was one that actually had to be rescued to come back to the city and try to live with very hard for me and my family but I have family that still live there the city has been gone down way before hurricane Katrina the crime rate has always been up but it's even more worse now that there's no curriculum for these kids there's no job opportunity for the adults there's no education and a system that lack understanding and knowing that I slave traits still exists in the city of Louisiana especially in New my child is a victim of being shot up in a drive-by shooting just by taking a dog outside which was the city has yet to answer any questions about that have not found any potential person of interest I was left with just knowing that I was able to still have my kids still to this day and I thank God that weit's unfortunate that families that do live there have to go through this on a daily basis they are shooting and killings on everyday every night and our kids are getting younger and being the face of just retaliation for someone else's conscience and the dirty decisions that they just choose to make the city mayor give zero f**** about what's going on and I see that pleasantly the city councilors gives you a f*** about what's going on and I see that humbly this city is dangerous there's no hope even though our friends and families do look at the city and feel like there is

[@goodcitizen3027]

Then stop voting for someone just because they are Black. Do some research.

[@YouTubeDeletesComments]

That's the longest sentence I've ever frickin read!

[@nottodaytvjones4387]

You choose to read move on

[@tamradillonittybittysiddit1536]

We black America DON'T care bout us . Even poor & struggling we still out do them I'm apologize that all this has happened to u and yours they getting there's and will continue to 👀🖤💯

[@nottodaytvjones4387]

@@tamradillonittybittysiddit1536 thank you and God bless 🙏💗

[@williamrowlands1789]

Wish they would repatriot a lot of the Katrina refugees back to New Orleans from Houston. They've really turned some nice neighborhoods in Houston into the ghettos they left in New Orleans. Rick Perry who was governor of Texas at the time should never have invited them here after Katrina..

[@annep.1905]

This is a non-story and a non-issue.

[@littlesuzy7]

What should have happened to NO after Katrina?

[@AlmostReady504]

A section of hollygrove as well. Still would live there if it was free

[@fun364]

Hawaii is next

[@kymCPT]

Oahu Already …. Lahaina Maui current target 🎯…😢

[@MyEmirates]

I am from Baton Rouge hurricane Katrina was not my fault

[@mcdonoghrahloh459]

WTF are you talking about?

[@MyEmirates]

@@mcdonoghrahloh459🙏🏽🛳️

[@j_saxon_9754]

Our house in dfw was bought in 2012 for 140k sold for 350k in 2022. It's inflation for one thing driving price spike not just "gentrification". Beware of anyone who uses the same word over and over as they are either trying to sell you or themselves!

[@jdfriloux]

I don’t know if there is much you can do about this, as it is a natural cycle. In the case of New Orleans, it was sped along with the destruction from Katrina.

[@tommyjuneau6329]

Yea, I got the memo after HK...it's still where my heart is tho

[@correctingirresponsiblefin3096]

Keep voting sheeple

[@daddy9925]

All part of the plan!

[@benjaminingram4857]

Algiers didn't flood during ketrina are they next?

[@loc1181]

Sounds like Jersey City....

[@applejack2911]

And buddy let me tell ya, they sent these people all over the country. They some unique type colored folks come out of N.O.

[@vivianworden2706]

This is what's planned for Lahaina, Hi.A year from now hardly any natives will live there.

[@adammr7097]

In 60s you also had gentrification. It is a reverse gentrification now.

[@harmonesepleasant]

New Orleans is definitely not New Orleans. I do hate the culture is disappearing and it’s become a bland city like other cities in America- that should have never been the case for this unique city. New Orleans will of course never be the same as Pre-Katrina. For those of us who grew up then, we have to be grateful for those sweet memories♥️

[@paulnguyen2227]

Glad I left and I'll never go back

[@cypherlock01]

That was the intent - no action leading to déplacement and replacement and stealing

[@lesstalk4785]

Black people build neighborhood with entertainment, food, and music THEN yt people want it

[@skip031890]

Are you trolling? 😂

[@ladiday8479]

take it back,,

[@sunnygabriel7147]

I'm so sick of Louisiana not voting... My family has been involved in elections an N.O. since I was 6yrs old.. I'm 48, coming back to take my city back

[@quennoc5056]

That's A Shame 😮 God Make a Way!!😊

[@MisterTomcat]

🥱

[@petenrita]

its about the green

[@sterlinganderson9524]

DIRTY SOUTH

[@johnott4149]

I bet crime is down

[@johnott4149]

Section 8 is terrible

[@nenola504]

New orleans wouldnt be shi without black folks 💯

[@skip031890]

It definitely wouldn't be one of the most dangerous places in the country that's for sure.

[@swamp1138]

Hate to break it to you all. But there aren't any "black neighborhoods". Blacks in the U.S. ecspecially the south were country folk. They were on the plantations, then when they were free they lived in the sticks until cities crumbles during the great depression. The neighborhoods are returning to what they originally were. Sorry y'all, but it's back to post 1865 River Road. It was a good run while it lasted. But keep voting Democrat, they'll help us one day...right...hopefully...na

[@jfoxkhajiit4631]

Racist hurricane 😱

[@johnbenning8770]

They play the same game and we always end up on the bottom. You wonder why us black folks need reparations our grieves never get addressed just stating facts.

[@iMatti00]

Are you freaking kidding me? Do you know that Neighborhood used to have Italian people living in it. So I guess blacks gentrified it from Italians, and now whites, or whoever, are doing it again. Did you also know that foreign born Black people who immigrate to the United States do much better than American born Black people? Maybe it’s because they come here and they have a drive to succeed and I don’t feel like they’re going to be a victim because of history. And why don’t you go criticize all the owners of the home, much of who are blocked themselves, who sold their homes for more money than they could’ve got before. The economy is both a circle with millions of other circles inside. Everything that happens good to one person is bad for another, and so forth. But it’s just easier for people to believe that they’re being victimized and understanding the world is a difficult place.

[@om-nj2hw]

Every scale goat people have lifted themselves up, but you still play the blame game.

[@skip031890]

What a stupid comment. Quit being a sorry excuse for a man and go take your ass to work. White men are not giving you anything. 🙄

[@princegleich1256]

They