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LSU Post-Katrina Research on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Rick Weil Department of Sociology, LSU
[email protected] www.fweil.com
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
LSU Post-Katrina Research on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
Maps of Flooding & Damage
Rick Weil Department of Sociology, LSU
[email protected] www.fweil.com
Mapped from U.S. Geological Survey Data
Mapped from City of New Orleans Data
Source: LSU Disaster Recovery Survey
LSU Post-Katrina Research on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Data Collection Challenges
Rick Weil Department of Sociology, LSU
[email protected] www.fweil.com
We have Partnered with lots of Organizations in Conducting Surveys (some listed)
7th Ward Neighborhood Center DeSaix Area Neighborhood Association LouisianaRebuilds.info RALLY Foundation
Acorn, Baton Rouge Desire Area Residents Council
Lower 9th Ward NBH Empowerment
Network Assn Rand
Acorn, New Orleans Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana Lutheran Disaster Response Red Cross, New Orleans
American Red Cross Faith Temple Church of God The Holy Ghost
Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church &
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
Organizing First Baptist Church of Houma
Miracle Faith Healing and Deliverance
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
Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans GNO Fair Housing Action Center Housing
N.O. Social Aid and Pleasure Club Task
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
Community Center of St. Bernard Katrina Aid Today
PNOLA: The Phoenix of N.O.
(Tulane/Gravier)
United Way for the Greater New Orleans
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
Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church Louisiana Family Recovery Corps Puentes
Young Men Olympians Social Aid & Pleasure
Club
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.
Images of Data Collection: Interviewing Door-to-Door
in Tremé and the Seventh Ward, Summer 2009
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.
Images of Data Collection: Interviewing with the Vietnamese-language
Questionnaire at a Respondent’s Home in Village De l’Est, Summer 2009
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.
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
[email protected] www.fweil.com
Hypotheses: Individual & Collective Resources and Recovery
Individual-Level Resources
Yes No
Collective
Resources
(Social Capital)
Yes
High level of Recovery. High to Medium level of
Recovery.
e.g. Jewish community e.g. Vietnamese community;
SAPC members
No
High to Medium level of
Recovery. Low level of Recovery.
e.g. Renaissance Village
(Rare: High Individual-Level
Resources usually permit
formation of Collective Resources, as needed)
Compensating Collective (“Institutional”) Resources: The Verba-Nie-Kim Hypotheses.
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.)
0
100
People with Individual-Level Resources (only)
People With Collective Resources
Collective Resources help
People Compensate for
the Lack of Individual-Level
Resources
Hypotheses: Storm Damage, Resources, and Recovery: Individual & Collective Paths to Hurricane Recovery
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
[email protected] www.fweil.com
Individual Level Regressions: Social Capital, Higher Social Status, Low Damage, & Resources Promote
Recovery and reduce Negative Outcomes.
Stay or
Return
to N.O.
Personal
Recovery Stress
Depressed,
Anxious Hopeful
Social
Solidarity
Social
Conflict
State of
Health
Spiritual
Theology
Punitive
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
Individual Level: Social Capital Reduces Stress: Church Attendance is most effective
20%
40%
60%
80%
No flood damage Up to 8 feet Over 8 feet
Angry
Attend Church Every Week Less
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
No flood damage Up to 8 feet Over 8 feet
Trouble concentrating
Attend Church Every Week Less
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
[email protected] www.fweil.com
Civic Engagement in Selected Social Groups
-10%
-5%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
FEMATrailers
Vietnamese Black ChurchMember
White High Income HighEducation
Jewish SAPCMember
Civic Engagement in Selected Social Groups (Showing percentage points above or below New Orleans average)
LSU Post-Katrina Research on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Aggregate Data Analyses
Rick Weil Department of Sociology, LSU
[email protected] www.fweil.com
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.
Sources: HUD; USPS; Valassis & Greater New Orleans Community
Data Center
Repopulation Data (from Postal deliveries) Can be analyzed with our aggregated survey data.
Blight Data can be analyzed in the same way.
Sources: HUD; USPS; City of New Orleans
Aggregate Level: Social Capital and Higher Social Status promote Repopulation and reduce Negative Outcomes.
-.30 -.20 -.10 .00 .10 .20 .30 .40
Percent Black
Disadvantage Index
Income
Education
Social Trust
Attended public meeting
Perform Service
Civic Engagement
Associational Involvement
Correlations
Repopulation
-.50 -.25 .00 .25 .50
Percent Black
Disadvantage Index
Income
Education
Social Trust
Attended public meeting
Perform Service
Civic Engagement
Associational Involvement
Correlations
Damage Blight Crime
For instance, Church Membership Is associated with Reduced Violent Crime
Survey Data (N = 2,648) & Police Reports, Aggregated to Neighborhood Level (N = 62)
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
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
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**
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
[email protected] www.fweil.com
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.
The Neighborhoods Partnership Network (NPN): Neighborhood Associations that Responded to our Survey
Note: Some Neighborhood Associations overlap with Others
Example of Blight Reduction: 1. Storm Damage
Source: City of New Orleans
Example of Blight Reduction: 2. Blight (average over time)
Source: U.S. Postal Service, HUD
Example of Blight Reduction: 3. Blight Reduction in the Flooded Areas
Source: U.S. Postal Service, HUD
Example of Blight Reduction: 4. Demolitions by the City in 2011
Sources: U.S. Postal Service, HUD; City of New Orleans
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.
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.
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
Analyses for “Sweet Home New Orleans:” Where did Musicians from Flooded Areas Move?
Analyses for “Sweet Home New Orleans:” Musicians have a harder time Earning a Living
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 during JazzFest, 2008. Derrick Tabb, at right, Program Director & snare drummer for the Rebirth Brass Band.
Mardi Gras, February, 2010. We marched in 5 top parades & the Saints
victory parade, and played at Jazzfest.
Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans: Where did people from Flooded Areas Move?
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.
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.
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
[email protected] www.fweil.com
Some of the people and groups We have filmed and plan to film
7th Ward
Abram Himelstein, Rachel Breunlin, Neighborhood Story Project, the Porch
Allison Plyer, GNOCDC - Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
Arlene Barron, Leslie Fishman, Jewish Community Center
Audrey Browder, Central City Partnership & Pontilly Disaster Recovery Center
Bobby Garon, Alan Bissinger, Michael Wasserman, & Julie Wise Oreck, Jewish Federation of GNO
Capacity College, NPN
Capacity College, NPN
Capacity College, NPN
Chalmette Tomato Festival, OLPS
Cheryl Diggins, Melia
City Council Mtg, Master Plan, Dist B
Clients, Sweet Home New Orleans
Dena Gerber, Jewish Family Service
Denise Thornton, Tina Marquardt, Connie Uddo, Milissa Orzolek, Beacons of Hope/St. Paul's Homecoming Center
Derrick Tabb, Roots of Music, various
Derrick Tabb, Roots of Music: NOMTOC Parade
Derrick Tabb, Roots, Parading in Neighborhoods to Recruit & show need
Diem Nguyen, Mary Tran, Mary Queen of Vietnam CDC
Erich Sternberg & Richard Lipsey, Jewish Federation of Greater BR
Erin Patton, family were caterers in Chalmette
Fr. Vien, Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church
Gert Town
Gill Benedek, Moishe House
Gill Benedek, Neighborhood Partnership Network
Glenn Stoudt, Al Petrie, Lakeview Community
Improvement Association
Greg Phares, former EBR Sheriff
Harrison Ave Marketplace, Lakeview
Hubert Dixon (others), The Porch
Iray Nabatoff, Community Center of St. Bernard
Jennifer Weishaupt, Jennifer Farwell, Mid-City Neighborhood Organization (MCNO)
Jessica White, Barbara Johnson, 504ward
Joe Sherman, Carol Dotson, Hollygrove
John Koeferl, Holy Cross NA
Jordan Hirsch, Sweet Home New Orleans
Katherine Prevost, Bunny Friends NA
Kevin Brown, Evelyn Turner, Trinity Christian Community - Hollygrove
LANO
LaToya Cantrell, Hal Roark, Broadmoor Improvement Association
LimmudFest - Main day, Jewish Community
Lisa Smith, Unmet Needs Committee, Red Cross
LJ Goldstein, Renee Heinlein, David Freedman, Jewish Community
LJ Goldstein, Renee Heinlein: Seder planning, Krewe du Jieux
Loren Pickford, Musician, Sweet Home Client
Mardi Gras Indians, I, Dryades & 2nd, Central City, MG Day
Mardi Gras Indians, II, St Joseph's Day
Mardi Gras Indians, III, Background w Harrison family
Mary LeBlanc, Arcenia Crayton, & Wilbert Ross, Renaissance Village
Mary W Rowe, New Orleans Institute, City-Works
Meg Lousteau, VCPORA (French Quarter)
Membership and/or Committee Mtgs, Broadmoor Improvement Association
Membership and/or Committee Mtgs, Jewish Federation of GNO
Membership Mtg, Lakeview Community Improvement Association
Nonprofit Central in NOLA
Purim, Uptown Jewish Community Center
Ray Nichols, Gonzo Civic Volunteer
Rev. Danny C. Digal, Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church
Rita LeGrand, Lakeview Blight inspections & enforcement
Ronald Baptiste, McKendall Estates Homeowners Assn
Saundra Reed, Keisha Brown Robinson, Central City Renaissance Alliance
Seabrook Neighborhood Association
Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, Second Line Parade (Sundays)
Steven Bingler, Concordia - Nexus tour of French Quarter
Steven Bingler, Concordia - sit-down interview
Tamara Jackson, SAPC Task Force Peace March
Tamara Jackson, Social Aid & Pleasure Club Task Force
Tet Vietnamese New Year celebration, Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church
Timolynn Sams, Neighborhood Partnership Network
Tony Fernandez, St Bernard Deputy Sheriff & Parish President OLPS
Victor Gordon, Clara Carey, King Wells Sr., Pontilly Association
YMO, 9Times, Prince of Wales, Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs
Youth Think Tank, Work with Audrey at Central City Partnership
Zack Rosenburg, St. Bernard Project
A few of the community leaders we have filmed
Al Petrie, Lakeview Katherine Prevost, Upper 9th Ward
Denise Thornton, Beacon of Hope
Audrey Browder, Central City
Allan Bissinger, Jewish Federation
Sue Press, Ole & New Style Fellas SAPC, Treme
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
[email protected] www.fweil.com
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.
Community Strategies and Resources for Recovery 2
• Greater strategic sophistication.
– Creating “Critical Masses” or “Tipping Points”
– Branding
– Community planning
• E.g., Broadmoor, Vietnamese, Jews
Community Strategies and Resources for Recovery 3
• Increasing citizen participation. – People who had never participated before
• A new Cooperative Orientation among community leaders – 91% of
Neighborhood leaders affirmed that relations with other leaders are cooperative
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60%
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100%
There are otherneighborhood
organizations whose rolesoverlap with your
organization
See your relationshipswith other neighborhood
groups as cooperative,rather than competitive
Your organization compares activities and
strategies with organizations in other
neighborhoods, in order to learn from each others’
experiences
Relations among Neighborhood Associations (N = 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
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
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
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
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
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)
Half the households in Baton Rouge housed Evacuees … almost entirely relatives and friends.
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
Oct-2005 Feb-2006 Jun-2006 Oct-2006 Feb-2007
Evacuees Staying in Your Residence
Staying Now Stayed Earlier No One
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Total Staying Friends &Relatives
Others
*Multiple mentions possible
Whom Did People House?*
Total Staying Relatives Friends Others
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…
Two thirds of people in Baton Rouge did volunteer relief work – most more than once.
Most of them volunteered with Religious Organizations.
No 34%
Once 12%
More than Once 54%
Did Volunteer work to Help Evacuees
None 37%
Worked, but not w Church
30%
Once with Church
7%
More than Once with
Church 24%
No answer 2%
Did Volunteer work to Help Evacuees - with Religious Organization
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.
-0.3
-0.2
-0.1
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
Aug-00 Dec-01 May-03 Sep-04 Feb-06 Jun-07
Afraid to Walk Alone at Night
-0.2
-0.1
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
Jul-05 May-06 Mar-07
Feel Depressed, Angry Legend
AssociationalInvolvement
CivicLeadership
Faith-BasedEngagement
InformalSocializing
Social Trust
Inter-RacialTrust
LSU Post-Katrina Research on Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Rick Weil Department of Sociology, LSU
[email protected] www.fweil.com