Weil, LSU Post-Katrina Survey - 4/9/12 - Doug Ahler's Class

1. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
fweil@lsu.edu
www.fweil.com

2. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
Data Basis:
7,000 interviews in main Household Survey
over 10,000 total interviews, all surveys
ca. 100 interviews with Neighborhood Association Leaders
Ethnographic research with over 200 groups
over 100 Filmed interviews, with ca. forty more planned

3. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
Maps of Flooding & Damage
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
fweil@lsu.edu
www.fweil.com

5. Mapped from U.S. Geological Survey Data

6. Mapped from City of New Orleans Data

7. Source: LSU Disaster Recovery Survey

8. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Data Collection Challenges
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
fweil@lsu.edu
www.fweil.com

9. We have Partnered with lots of Organizations
in Conducting Surveys (some listed)
7th Ward Neighborhood Center DeSaix Area Neighborhood Association LouisianaRebuilds.info RALLY Foundation
Lower 9th Ward NBH Empowerment
Acorn, Baton Rouge Desire Area Residents Council Network Assn Rand
Acorn, New Orleans Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana Lutheran Disaster Response Red Cross, New Orleans
Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church &
American Red Cross Faith Temple Church of God The Holy Ghost CDC Red Cross, St. Bernard Parish
Backbeat Foundation, Inc Family Road of GBR Mater Dolorosa Church Renaissance Village Council
Bard College FEMA McKendall Estates Homeowners Assoc. Roots of Music
Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Miracle Faith Healing and Deliverance
Organizing First Baptist Church of Houma Temple Save the Children USA
Beacon of Hope Resource Center Freret Neighborhood Center Mount Nebo Bible Baptist Church Second Gretaer Mount Sinai MBC
Broadmoor Development Corporation Gentilly Civic Improvement Association Mt. Ararat Missionary Baptist Church Shir Chadash Synagogue
Broadmoor Improvement Association Gert Town Enterprise Econ Redevelopment Neighborhoods Partnership Network Spring Lake Neighborhood Association
Campus-Community Partnerships, Tulane Gert Town Revival Intiative Neighbors United Association St. Dominic Catholic Church
Capital Area Human Services District GNOCDC - GNO Community Data Center New Orleans Bible Fellowship B.C. St. Gabriel the Archangel in New Orleans
N.O. Social Aid and Pleasure Club Task
Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans GNO Fair Housing Action Center Housing Force St. Louis King of France Catholic Church
Catholic Charities Hands On Baton Rouge New Orleans Times-Picayune St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church
Catholic Communtiy Services Hands On New Orleans New Orleans United Way St. Paul AME Church
Central Carrollton Association Harmony Outreach Services NOLA YURP Initiative St. Peter Claver Catholic Church
Central City Partnership Hollygrove Neighbors NOLACPP, Citizen Participation Project Sugar Hill FEMA Trailer Park
Central City Renaissance Alliance Holy Cross Neighborhood Association Nonprofit Central Sweet Home New Orleans
Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana - Metairie Institute of Southern Jewish Life Northshore Jewish Congregation Temple Sinai
Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana - Uptown Jeremiah Group Operation Brother's Keeper [Red Cross] Touro Synagogue
Christian Unity Baptist Church Jericho Road Operation Nehemiah Terrebonne Readiness Assistance Coalition
Churches Supporting Churches Jewish Family Service Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church Trinity Christian Community
City-Works Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans Oxfam America United Jewish Communities
Claiborne-University Neighborhood Assn Jewish Women's Archive Plymouth Rock Baptist Church United Methodist Hope Ministries
PNOLA: The Phoenix of N.O. United Way for the Greater New Orleans
Community Center of St. Bernard Katrina Aid Today (Tulane/Gravier) Area
Concordia LLC Kids with Cameras Policy Link Urban Conservancy + Stay Local!
Congregation Anshe Sphard Lakeview Civic Improvement Association Pontilly Neighborhood Association Ursuline Academy
Congregation Beth Israel Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Orgs PRC Compassion WWOZ
Congregation Gates of Prayer Louisiana Delta Service Corps [Americorps] Providence Community Housing Hurricane Response, Renaissance Village
Young Men Olympians Social Aid & Pleasure
Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church Louisiana Family Recovery Corps Puentes Club

10. Images of Data Collection:
Pontchartrain Park & Gentilly Woods (Pontilly),
January 2008
We worked with the Pontilly Neighborhood Association, who brought in 40 law
student volunteers from around the country. We went door-to-door with them,
doing the survey, and shared the results with the community.

11. Images of Data Collection:
Interviewing Door-to-Door
in Tremé and the Seventh Ward, Summer 2009

12. Images of Data Collection:
Young Men Olympians Social Aid & Pleasure Club
(Central City), January 2009
We worked with the Young Men Olympians, the oldest Social Aid & Pleasure
Club, celebrating its 125th anniversary, and student volunteers from New Orleans
colleges. We shared a meal & danced to the Free Agents Brass Band.

13. Images of Data Collection:
Interviewing with the Vietnamese-language
Questionnaire at a Respondent’s Home
in Village De l’Est, Summer 2009

14. Images of Data Collection:
Renaissance Village, FEMA Trailer Park, July 2007
We worked with the resident leaders of Renaissance Village, served a
Jambalaya dinner, brought in a New Orleans brass band … and
conducted the survey with the help of 30 resident volunteers.

15. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Hypotheses About Recovery:
Individual and Collective Resources
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
fweil@lsu.edu
www.fweil.com

16. Hypotheses: Individual & Collective Resources
and Recovery
Individual-Level Resources
Yes No
High to Medium level of
High level of Recovery.
Recovery.
Yes
e.g. Vietnamese community;
e.g. Jewish community
SAPC members
Collective
Resources High to Medium level of
Low level of Recovery.
Recovery.
(Social Capital)
No (Rare: High Individual-Level
Resources usually permit
formation of Collective e.g. Renaissance Village
Resources, as needed)

17. Compensating Collective (“Institutional”) Resources:
The Verba-Nie-Kim Hypotheses.
100
People With Collective Resources
Collective
Resources help
People
Compensate for
the Lack of
Individual-Level People with
Resources Individual-Level
Resources (only)
0
Source: Sidney Verba, Norman H. Nie, Jae-on Kim, Participation and Political Equality:
A Seven-Nation Comparison. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978, page 85. (Plus own diagram.)

18. Hypotheses: Storm Damage, Resources, and Recovery:
Individual & Collective Paths to Hurricane Recovery

19. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Individual-Level Data Analyses
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
fweil@lsu.edu
www.fweil.com

20. Individual Level Regressions:
Social Capital, Higher Social Status, Low Damage, & Resources Promote
Recovery and reduce Negative Outcomes.
Stay or
Return Personal Depressed, Social Social State of Spiritual Punitive
to N.O. Recovery Stress Anxious Hopeful Solidarity Conflict Health Theology Theology
Demographic
Age .08** -.01 .01 .03* -.02 .05** -.08** -.13** -.01 -.05**
Female .04** -.01 .14** .11** .03+ .02 -.03* -.01 .07** -.02
Education .01 .00 -.02 .09** .03 -.01 -.05** .16** -.09** -.13**
Estimated Income -.01 .11** -.08** -.04+ -.04* -.06** -.03 .14** -.03+ .01
Unemployed -.07** -.11** .08** .06** -.04* -.03* .03* -.05* .00 .03
Married w Children .00 .01 .01 .01 .00 .04* -.02 .01 .01 -.01
Black .09** -.07** -.14** -.19** .03+ .04** -.05** -.07** .21** -.03
Time since Katrina .07** .07** -.02 -.03 -.02 .03+ .07** -.01 .01 -.03+
Damage & Resources
Damage to Residence -.13** -.33** .12** .11** .00 -.01 .00 -.04+ .01 .05**
Damage to Business -.08** -.07** .02 .03+ .00 .00 -.02 -.05* -.01 .06**
Have Resources for Repair .08** .23** -.13** -.09** .08** .04* -.03* .12** -.01 -.04**
Social Capital
Associational Involvement .05+ .02 -.08** -.04+ .02 .07** .03 .03 .10** .00
Civic Leadership .02 -.01 .10** .08** .04 .06** .11** .00 -.02 .09**
Informal Socializing -.03 .03+ -.02 -.02 .01 .09** .01 .17** .03+ -.04*
Social Trust .11** .04** -.14** -.13** .14** .19** -.08** .03 .03+ -.12**
Faith-Based Social Capital
Church service attendance -.05** -.03+ -.06** -.11** -.04* .00 -.02 -.01 .24** -.10**
Spiritual Theology .07** -.01 .09** .08** .20** .37** .08** .02 - -
Punitive Theology -.05** -.04** .24** .15** -.07** -.03+ .27** -.06** - -
Adj R-Sq .08 .30 .20 .13 .08 .24 .14 .20 .16 .06

21. Individual Level: Social Capital Reduces Stress:
Church Attendance is most effective
Angry Trouble concentrating
80% 50%
40%
60%
30%
20%
40%
10%
20% 0%
No flood damage Up to 8 feet Over 8 feet No flood damage Up to 8 feet Over 8 feet
Attend Church Every Week Less Attend Church Every Week Less

22. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
In Partnership with New Orleans Community Leaders
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Total Number of interviews = ca. 7,000
Comparison of Selected Groups
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
fweil@lsu.edu
www.fweil.com

23. Civic Engagement in
Selected Social Groups
Civic Engagement in Selected Social Groups
(Showing percentage points above or below New Orleans average)
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
-5%
-10%
FEMA Vietnamese Black Church White High Income High Jewish SAPC
Trailers Member Education Member

24. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Aggregate Data Analyses
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
fweil@lsu.edu
www.fweil.com

25. With a large enough N (7,000), we can aggregate (average) data
to geographical districts and conduct aggregate analyses.
We use Census Tracts, the finest (smallest) district size we can,
consistent with reliable averages per district.

26. Repopulation Data (from Postal deliveries)
Can be analyzed with our aggregated survey data.
Sources: HUD; USPS; Valassis &
Greater New Orleans Community
Data Center

27. Blight Data can be analyzed in the same way.
Sources: HUD; USPS;
City of New Orleans

28. Aggregate Level:
Social Capital and Higher Social Status promote
Repopulation and reduce Negative Outcomes.
Correlations Correlations
Repopulation Damage Blight Crime
Associational Involvement Associational Involvement
Civic Engagement Civic Engagement
Perform Service Perform Service
Attended public meeting Attended public meeting
Social Trust Social Trust
Education Education
Income Income
Disadvantage Index Disadvantage Index
Percent Black Percent Black
-.30 -.20 -.10 .00 .10 .20 .30 .40 -.50 -.25 .00 .25 .50

29. For instance, Church Membership
Is associated with Reduced Violent Crime
Survey Data (N = 2,648) & Police Reports, Aggregated to Neighborhood Level (N = 62)

30. Aggregate Level:
Church Membership’s Effect on Reducing Violent Crime:
1. Bivariate Correlations
Survey Data (N = 6,945) & Aggregate Data at Tract Level (N = 182)
Bivariate Correlations
All White Black
Natural Log (Ln) Rates Combined Murder Assault Combined Murder Assault Combined Murder Assault
Associational Involvement -.414** -.327** -.383** -.388** -.412** -.336** -.248** -.050 -.276**
Civic Engagement -.444** -.355** -.396** -.357** -.336** -.301* -.280** -.094 -.290**
Church member -.283** -.219** -.359** -.425** -.361** -.439** -.297** -.231* -.396**
Church service attendance .086 .143 -.059 -.204 -.232 -.184 -.118 .020 -.332**
Social Trust -.596** -.508** -.525** -.512** -.429** -.485** -.386** -.237* -.344**
Inter-Racial Trust -.258** -.199** -.299** -.274* -.194 -.289* -.019 .027 -.157
ACS 2005-09 Median household income -.646** -.565** -.622** -.497** -.448** -.539** -.547** -.324** -.482**
Disadvantage Index (from ACS 2005-09) .522** .489** .335** .370** .486** .307* .308** .159 .032
ACS 2005-09 Pct Non-Hispanic Black .549** .559** .405** .396** .514** .320** .124 .146 -.057
ACS 2005-09 Pct Age 15-34 .016 .112 -.007 -.077 .052 -.044 .002 .085 -.062
ACS 2005-09 Pct Vacant Housing Units .486** .342** .391** .434** .253* .461** .401** .220* .180

31. Aggregate Level:
Church Membership’s Effect on Reducing Violent Crime:
2. Standard Multivariate Regressions
Survey Data (N = 6,945) & Aggregate Data at Tract Level (N = 198)
Multiple Regressions
Combined Crime Rate (Natural Log)
Wh Bl InterAct
ACS 2005-09 Median household income -.012 -.011
ACS 2005-09 Pct Population 25+ HS or Less .053 .053 .055
ACS 2005-09 Unemployed over Age 16 -.121+ -.121+ -.128+ -.113+ -.099
ACS 2005-09 Pct Below Poverty level .101 .100 .105 .105 .124+ .134* .189 .166+ .134*
ACS 2005-09 Pct Age 15-34 -.097+ -.097+ -.095+ -.111* -.125* -.108* -.234* -.082 -.110*
ACS 2005-09 Pct Married-couple family -.088 -.088 -.092 -.100
ACS 2005-09 Pct Vacant Housing Units .153+ .151* .150* .143* .105+ .156** .103 .225** .156**
Mean Blight 2006-2010 (USPS-HUD) -.003
ACS 2005-09 Pct Owner Occupied -.209+ -.210+ -.216* -.236* -.324** -.252** -.302+ -.273** -.254**
ACS 2005-09 Pct Non-Hispanic Black .163+ .162+ .163* .209** .208** .162* .113 .097 .162*
Associational Involvement .011 .012
Civic Engagement -.057 -.058 -.049
Family is Rooted in New Orleans -.009 -.010
Church member -.147* -.147* -.150* -.149** -.155** -.171** -.022 -.264** -.173**
Church service attendance .030 .029 .029
Social Trust -.346** -.347** -.349** -.354** -.316** -.315** -.355** -.279** -.318**
Inter-Racial Trust .083 .083 .087 .075
Church member x Race Interaction -.017
Adjusted R-Sq .613 .616 .624 .627 .625 .610 .521 .436 .608

32. Aggregate Level:
Church Membership’s Effect on Reducing Violent Crime:
3. Spatial Regressions
Factors Influencing Crime Rates in Orleans Parish, 2007-2009
Survey Data (N = 6,945) & Aggregate Data at Tract Level (N = 182)
Regression Models, Testing for Spatial Auto-correlation: t-Statistics or z-values
Natural Log (Ln) Rates Combined Murder Assault
Constant 4.813** 1.925+ 3.506**
Spatial Lag 13.024** 9.740** 10.662**
ACS 2005-09 Pct Below Poverty level 2.149* 2.305*
ACS 2005-09 Unemployed over Age 16 -3.360**
ACS 2005-09 Pct Age 15-34 -1.197
ACS 2005-09 Pct Vacant Housing Units 4.181** 2.362*
ACS 2005-09 Pct Owner Occupied -1.004 -3.812**
ACS 2005-09 Pct Non-Hispanic Black 3.096** 4.024** 3.327**
Church member -3.343** -2.914** -4.293**
Social Trust -3.594** -2.227* -2.968**

33. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Partnerships: “Social Action” Research
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
fweil@lsu.edu
www.fweil.com

34. The Neighborhoods Partnership Network (NPN)
A nonprofit, citywide network of neighborhoods.
We have collaborated with NPN on an organizational survey,
and created a multi-level data set.

35. The Neighborhoods Partnership Network (NPN):
Neighborhood Associations that Responded to our Survey
Note: Some Neighborhood Associations overlap with Others

36. Example of Blight Reduction:
1. Storm Damage
Source: City of New Orleans

37. Example of Blight Reduction:
2. Blight (average over time)
Source: U.S. Postal Service, HUD

38. Example of Blight Reduction:
3. Blight Reduction in the Flooded Areas
Source: U.S. Postal Service, HUD

39. Example of Blight Reduction:
4. Demolitions by the City in 2011
Sources: U.S. Postal Service, HUD; City of New Orleans

40. Example of Blight Reduction:
Social Capital’s Effect on Reducing Blight:
1. Multiple Regressions
Factors Influencing Blight Reduction in Greater New Orleans, 2007-2010
Survey Data (N = 6,945) & Aggregate Data at Tract Level* (N = 108)
Multiple Regressions
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
City's Damage Assessment -.309* - -
.480** .440**
Storm Repairs completed .123 .188 .145 .291** .266** .250**
Have Resources for Repair -.164 -.186+ -.141 .226* .224* .225* .210* .209*
Median household income -.217 -.052
Median Home Value .398* .258+ .566** .557** .545** .565**
Disadvantage Index -.005 -.298*
Pct Non-Hispanic Black .056 -.097 .106 .423** .436** .443** .381** .278* .138 .138 .138
Source of $ - Government Agencies .054 .063 .032 -.152 -.135 -.135
Source of $ - My own money -.139 -.143 -.132 -.131 -.125 -.163+ -.169+ -.169+ -.153+ -.161+
Source of $ - Insurance .136 .067 .071 -.073 -.098 -.001 .029
Associational Involvement .259 .263 .259 .168 .157 .182+ .206* .299** .351** .351** .377** .327**
Civic Engagement -.027 .021 -.019
Adj RSq .387 .342 .387 .365 .368 .358 .291 .199 .176 .168 .159 .161
*Blight Reduction in Flooded tracts that had (a) over 10% blight, and (b) were not housing projects that the government demolished
& rebuilt.

41. Example of Blight Reduction:
Social Capital’s Effect on Reducing Blight:
2. Multiple Regressions with Spatial Lag
Factors Influencing Blight Reduction in Greater New Orleans, 2007-2010
Survey Data (N = 6,945) & Aggregate Data at Tract Level* (N = 108)
Regression Models, Testing for Spatial Auto-correlation: t-Statistics or z-values
8 8a 8b 8c 8d 8e 8f
Constant 3.707** 2.921** 3.111** 3.310** 3.382** 3.391** 3.157**
Spatial Lag 6.263** 6.306** 6.465** 6.801** 6.716** 7.097**
Have Resources for Repair 2.381* 1.574 1.385 1.328 1.290 1.511
Disadvantage Index -2.227* -1.693+ -1.509 -1.484 -1.161
Pct Non-Hispanic Black 2.348* 1.022 1.004 .931
Source of $ - Government Agencies -1.627 -1.133 -.990
Source of $ - My own money -1.847+ -1.933+ -1.858+ -1.756+ -1.820+ -1.855+ -1.725+
Source of $ - Insurance -.833 -.761
Associational Involvement 2.832** 2.254* 2.161* 2.404* 2.240* 3.214** 3.239**
*Blight Reduction in Flooded tracts that had (a) over 10% blight, and (b) were not housing projects that
the government demolished & rebuilt.

42. Example of Blight Reduction:
Neighborhood Associations’ Effect on Reducing Blight:
3. Multiple Regressions
LSU/NPN Survey of Neighborhood Association Leaders (N = 67)
and LSU Disaster Recovery Survey (N = 7,000)
Regressions (with Fixed Controls)
Blight Reduction
Wet areas: all Wet areas: NBOs only
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
Damage Assessment .277+ .189 .328* .259+ .318*
Median household income .006 .074 .021 .101
Unemployed -.457* -.302+ -.442* -.438* -.222 -.433*
Pct Black .324 .308* .302 .260 .344* .394+ .383* .384+ .294 .409*
Married with Children .328+ .341* .333+ .364*
Pct Owner Occupied -.276 -.316+ -.281 -.327+
Disadvantage Index -.168 -.243 -.149 -.262
Associational Involvement .271 .411** .260+ .291+ .407** .199 .437** .222 .218 .401**
Family is Rooted in New Orleans .179 .254 .268 .341+
Church service attendance -.215 -.090 -.248 -.083
Cooperation with Other Organizations: Count .090 .274* .180 .160 .281* .025 .202 .144 .047 .215+
Organizational Activities: Blight (q 41) .321* .240* .242* .295* .223+ .361** .308* .262* .353** .267*
Organization Structural Assets (Block Capts) .117 .157 .148 .217+
Adj R-Sq .602 .567 .607 .560 .553 .658 .577 .641 .621 .582

43. Analyses for “Sweet Home New Orleans:”
Where did Musicians from Flooded Areas Move?

44. Analyses for “Sweet Home New Orleans:”
Musicians have a harder time Earning a Living

45. The “Roots of Music”
After-school music program for middle school kids.
Social Action Research: Building social capital for the kids and their families,
while conducting our survey of their parents.
Organizing meeting at Café du Monde Mardi Gras, February, 2010.
during JazzFest, 2008. Derrick Tabb, at right, Program We marched in 5 top parades & the Saints
Director & snare drummer for the Rebirth Brass Band. victory parade, and played at Jazzfest.

46. Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans:
Where did people from Flooded Areas Move?

47. Vietnamese and Jewish Community Leaders
Comparing Notes on Recovery Strategies.
Item: It’s not all “Culture.” Lots of it is Strategy and Planning that others can adapt.

48. NOLA YURP (Young Urban Rebuilding Professionals) “Brain Gain:”
Where are they from?
New Young Leader survey completed in 2010 with “504ward”
N=426. Data collected summer, 2008.

49. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Adding a Documentary Film to the Study
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
fweil@lsu.edu
www.fweil.com

50. Some of the people and groups
We have filmed and plan to film
7th Ward Improvement Association Membership and/or Committee Mtgs, Jewish Federation
Abram Himelstein, Rachel Breunlin, Neighborhood Story Greg Phares, former EBR Sheriff of GNO
Project, the Porch Harrison Ave Marketplace, Lakeview Membership Mtg, Lakeview Community Improvement
Allison Plyer, GNOCDC - Greater New Orleans Hubert Dixon (others), The Porch Association
Community Data Center Iray Nabatoff, Community Center of St. Bernard Nonprofit Central in NOLA
Arlene Barron, Leslie Fishman, Jewish Community Center Jennifer Weishaupt, Jennifer Farwell, Mid-City Purim, Uptown Jewish Community Center
Audrey Browder, Central City Partnership & Pontilly Neighborhood Organization (MCNO) Ray Nichols, Gonzo Civic Volunteer
Disaster Recovery Center Jessica White, Barbara Johnson, 504ward Rev. Danny C. Digal, Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church
Bobby Garon, Alan Bissinger, Michael Wasserman, & Joe Sherman, Carol Dotson, Hollygrove Rita LeGrand, Lakeview Blight inspections &
Julie Wise Oreck, Jewish Federation of GNO enforcement
John Koeferl, Holy Cross NA
Capacity College, NPN Ronald Baptiste, McKendall Estates Homeowners Assn
Jordan Hirsch, Sweet Home New Orleans
Capacity College, NPN Saundra Reed, Keisha Brown Robinson, Central City
Katherine Prevost, Bunny Friends NA
Capacity College, NPN Renaissance Alliance
Kevin Brown, Evelyn Turner, Trinity Christian Community
Chalmette Tomato Festival, OLPS - Hollygrove Seabrook Neighborhood Association
Cheryl Diggins, Melia LANO Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, Second Line Parade
City Council Mtg, Master Plan, Dist B (Sundays)
LaToya Cantrell, Hal Roark, Broadmoor Improvement
Clients, Sweet Home New Orleans Association Steven Bingler, Concordia - Nexus tour of French Quarter
Dena Gerber, Jewish Family Service LimmudFest - Main day, Jewish Community Steven Bingler, Concordia - sit-down interview
Denise Thornton, Tina Marquardt, Connie Uddo, Milissa Lisa Smith, Unmet Needs Committee, Red Cross Tamara Jackson, SAPC Task Force Peace March
Orzolek, Beacons of Hope/St. Paul's Homecoming LJ Goldstein, Renee Heinlein, David Freedman, Jewish Tamara Jackson, Social Aid & Pleasure Club Task Force
Center Community Tet Vietnamese New Year celebration, Mary Queen of
Derrick Tabb, Roots of Music, various LJ Goldstein, Renee Heinlein: Seder planning, Krewe du Vietnam Catholic Church
Derrick Tabb, Roots of Music: NOMTOC Parade Jieux Timolynn Sams, Neighborhood Partnership Network
Derrick Tabb, Roots, Parading in Neighborhoods to Loren Pickford, Musician, Sweet Home Client Tony Fernandez, St Bernard Deputy Sheriff & Parish
Recruit & show need Mardi Gras Indians, I, Dryades & 2nd, Central City, MG President OLPS
Diem Nguyen, Mary Tran, Mary Queen of Vietnam CDC Day Victor Gordon, Clara Carey, King Wells Sr., Pontilly
Erich Sternberg & Richard Lipsey, Jewish Federation of Mardi Gras Indians, II, St Joseph's Day Association
Greater BR Mardi Gras Indians, III, Background w Harrison family YMO, 9Times, Prince of Wales, Social Aid & Pleasure
Erin Patton, family were caterers in Chalmette Clubs
Mary LeBlanc, Arcenia Crayton, & Wilbert Ross,
Fr. Vien, Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church Renaissance Village Youth Think Tank, Work with Audrey at Central City
Gert Town Partnership
Mary W Rowe, New Orleans Institute, City-Works
Gill Benedek, Moishe House Zack Rosenburg, St. Bernard Project
Meg Lousteau, VCPORA (French Quarter)
Gill Benedek, Neighborhood Partnership Network Membership and/or Committee Mtgs, Broadmoor
Glenn Stoudt, Al Petrie, Lakeview Community Improvement Association

51. A few of the community leaders we have filmed
Al Petrie, Lakeview Katherine Prevost, Upper 9th Ward
Denise Thornton, Beacon of Hope Allan Bissinger, Jewish Federation
Audrey Browder, Central City
Sue Press, Ole & New
Style Fellas SAPC, Treme

52. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
fweil@lsu.edu
www.fweil.com

53. Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery 1
• Increasing organizational capacity and
autonomy.
– Use of Committees, Block Captains, etc.
– Doing own Data Collection.
– New technologies, like Mapping, Data Bases.
– Use of Volunteers.
– Taking the initiative and not waiting for outside
help.

54. Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery 2
• Greater strategic sophistication.
– Creating “Critical Masses” or “Tipping Points”
– Branding
– Community planning
• E.g., Broadmoor, Vietnamese, Jews

55. Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery 3
• Increasing citizen participation.
– People who had never participated before
• A new Relations among Neighborhood
Cooperative Associations (N = 56)
Orientation 100%
among 80%
community 60%
leaders 40%
– 91% of
20%
Neighborhood
leaders affirmed 0%
that relations There are other See your relationships Your organization
with other neighborhood
organizations whose roles
with other neighborhood compares activities and
groups as cooperative, strategies with
leaders are overlap with your rather than competitive organizations in other
cooperative organization neighborhoods, in order
to learn from each others’
experiences

56. Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery 4
• Emergence of new Umbrella Groups from
outside the organizational eco-system they
work with
– Convening Groups.
– Find areas of
common concern on
which they can work
together.
– Find synergies on
issues that would
otherwise produce
competition/conflict.
– Learn from each
other. Barbara Lacen Keller teaching NPN’s Capacity College

57. Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery 5
• New recovery resources from “Outside-inside”
the community
– Extra-Regional, National, & International
assistance from within the communities
– Vietnamese Community
• Houston & West Bank Neighbors
– Jewish Community
• National & Baton Rouge organizations
– Cultural Community
• Assistance to Musicians from Musicians

58. Cautions and Implications for
Future Policy and Actions 1
• Lower and middle- status citizens must be
able to overcome elite resistance to their
participation.
– Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs as Community Leaders
Prince of Wales
Social Aid &
Pleasure Club

59. Cautions and Implications for
Future Policy and Actions 2
• Citizens must overcome government
resistance to their participation, as well as
avoid being “captured” by government.
– New “hardball” tactics:
• Broadmoor’s Plan
• Vietnamese Landfill issue
– Sharing new techniques:
• “Capacity College”
– Avoiding Government “Capture:”
• Autonomy of Neighborhood Associations

60. Cautions and Implications for
Future Policy and Actions 3
• Communities must find ways to sustain
participation beyond the euphoric period of
recovery, into the more mundane tasks of
further improvement that are often more
technical rather than popular in nature.
– Issue of Expertise & Leadership

61. LSU Post-Katrina Surveys
in Baton Rouge:
Impact on the Community;
Helping cope with the Disaster
(supported by NSF)
Total Interviews = 2,960 in 3 waves:
•September 27 to November 29, 2005 (N=1,349)
•February to April, 2006 (N=1,008)
•March to April, 2007 (N=603)

62. Half the households in Baton Rouge housed Evacuees
… almost entirely relatives and friends.
Evacuees Staying in Your Residence Whom Did People House?*
Staying Now Stayed Earlier No One Total Staying Relatives Friends Others
100% 60%
50%
75%
40%
30%
50%
20%
25% 10%
0%
Total Staying Friends & Others
0% Relatives
Oct-2005 Feb-2006 Jun-2006 Oct-2006 Feb-2007
*Multiple mentions possible
Factoid: Southern Louisiana has some of the densest social networks in America.
Question:
•Where would disaster evacuees have gone if this had happened some other place?
•Hint: The Authorities would have to figure that out…

63. Two thirds of people in Baton Rouge did
volunteer relief work – most more than once.
Most of them volunteered with Religious Organizations.
Did Volunteer work to Help Evacuees -
Did Volunteer work to Help Evacuees with Religious Organization
No answer
More than
2%
Once with
No
Church None
34% 24% 37%
More than
Once Once with
54% Church
7%
Once
12% Worked, but
not w Church
30%

64. Social Capital and Stress
People with the best social networks were initially most
stressed because they were most involved in relief work.
They also recovered the fastest.
Afraid to Walk Alone at Night Feel Depressed, Angry
Legend
0.4 0.4
Associational
0.3 0.3 Involvement
Civic
0.2 Leadership
0.2
Faith-Based
0.1
Engagement
0.1
0 Informal
Socializing
0
-0.1 Social Trust
-0.2 -0.1 Inter-Racial
Trust
-0.3 -0.2
Aug-00 Dec-01 May-03 Sep-04 Feb-06 Jun-07 Jul-05 May-06 Mar-07

65. LSU Post-Katrina Research
on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
fweil@lsu.edu
www.fweil.com