Hurricane Katrina Legal Roundup

A by-no-means-exhaustive recap of recent Katrina-related legal activity

"...the extent of its litigation fallout is still open-ended. Hurricane Katrina hit land in New Orleans on Aug. 29,..."

Aug. 24, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Hurricane Housing Censorship News

Housing Authority of New Orleans asks attorney helping Katrina-evacuee tenants to stop talking to media about contentous government plan to demolish public housing deemed too damaged by Katrina to fix

"...public-housing complexes the government has deemed too damaged by Hurricane Katrina to fix. According to the Advancement Project –..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Post by Cheryl Smith

Senate Approves More Benefits for Hurricane Evacuees

Thirteen-week unemployment aid extension for both Katrina and Rita evacuees just in time

"...13 weeks the amount of time evacuees of both hurricanes Katrina and Rita can receive federal unemployment benefits. About..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Standing in a Hurricane

Just a little late for the Katrina anniversary, Gustav barrels in toward New Orleans, and Austin girds for relief efforts.

"...cruel irony to be commemorating the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with preparations for what may be as devastating..."

Aug. 31, 2008 News Post by Kate X Messer

Katrina Past, Katrina Present, Katrina's Future

UN scientists warn that Katrina-style weather disasters will become more common. Is Texas (or anyone) ready for more storms or the refugees that come with them?

"...and signs telling the half a million refugees from Hurricane Katrina that there’s some new housing opened in New..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Katrina Survivors Reflect 10 Years Later

Jamar Jefferson and Donna Bonner are just two of many who relocated to Austin

"...As we approach the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, it's hard to remember how much 2005 was..."

Aug. 28, 2015 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

Katrina Evacuees Falling Through Housing Cracks

Federal and city aid maze difficult to navigate

"...be living on the streets, but the thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in temporary housing setups throughout the U.S...."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Katrina Evacuees: Precarious Times at La Quinta

FEMA's new Dec. 1 cutoff deadline for picking up the tab of hurricane evacuees living in Texas hotels and motels leaves thousands of people in housing limbo

"...last Saturday was 14-year-old Jaren Diaz, one of several Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans occupying 30 rooms at..."

Nov. 25, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

More Unemployment Benefits for Hurricane Evacuees

Thirteen-week unemployment aid extension for both Katrina and Rita evacuees

"...13 weeks the amount of time evacuees of both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita can receive federal unemployment benefits...."

March 10, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

No End in Sight for Hurricane-Housing Limbo

FEMA once again extends cutoff deadline for hurricane evacuees still receiving housing assistance in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas

"...has extended anew its cutoff deadline for the 100,000-plus Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuee families still getting federal housing..."

Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Katrina's Aftermath

As the end of the primary federal housing program keeping roofs over the heads of area hurricane evacuees gets closer, local homeless advocates and social service providers try to prevent evacuees from falling through affordable housing cracks

"...housing program keeping roofs over the heads of area hurricane evacuees. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's indirect public-assistance program,..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Hurricane Housing Limbo

Evacuees get rent assistance deadline extension

"...it at the time, the butts of thousands of hurricane evacuees in the area were saved – albeit temporarily..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Hurricane Housing Censorship

Housing Authority of New Orleans sends letter to attorney representing former public housing tenants, requesting that he stop talking to media about government's plan to demolish complexes deemed too damaged by Katrina to fix

"...housing complexes the government has deemed too damaged by Hurricane Katrina to fix. According to the Advancement Project –..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Hurricane Housing Update

Federal housing assistance 'recertification' deadline for hurricane evacuees looms for both landlords and their tenants

"...across the state, informing them that financial assistance for hurricane evacuees living in their rental properties will end at..."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Still No Long-Term Housing Plan for Hurricane Evacuees

Only a small fraction of families qualify for mortgage assistance

"...its latest short-term housing promise to battered Gulf Coast hurricane evacuees when the Department of Housing and Urban Development..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Hurricane Hindsight

Learning from our hurricanes' past

"...One year after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the population of the city..."

Oct. 12, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Hurricane Housing Limbo Update

FEMA's newest housing assistance extensions buy Texas' more than 100,000 hurricane evacuee families a little more time

"...Although it's impossible to gauge how many Katrina and Rita evacuees' brains responded to the latest housing..."

Aug. 4, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Texas Left Holding Short HUD Hurricane Aid Stick

State gets a sliver of total it requested from Congress

"...$74.5 million out of an $11.5 billion pot of hurricane aid for Gulf Coast states. The $74.5 million, all..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Katrina Aftermath Radio: A Brief, Dysfunctional Life

Attempts to set up a low-power FM for Astrodome residents killed by bureaucracy

"...a low-power FM radio station for the benefit of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, a short-term station..."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Katrina's Price Tag

Reimbursement is promised, but will it be delivered?

"...tag of at least $3 million for the city's Hurricane Katrina response efforts – and Mayor Will Wynn is..."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

City Hammers Out Budget, Crosses Fingers for Katrina Evacuee Reimbursements

2005-06 money is ready to spend

"...in the wake of Austin's adoption of thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees. With the city crossing its fingers on..."

Sept. 16, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Hurricane Evacuees Take a Legal Blow

Emergency housing class-action suit against FEMA dismissed

"...in New Orleans late last year on behalf of hurricane evacuees who claimed their emergency housing needs weren't being..."

June 23, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

It Wasn't Katrina That Damaged New Orleans

"...once again see the destruction of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina blamed on the storm itself. Hurricane Katrina did..."

Nov. 12, 2013 Postmarks

Katrina Through the Eyes of an EMT

Philipp Meyer, a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at UT and an EMT, drove to New Orleans and spent 24 hours working with a local police department as an EMT.

"...night to New Orleans, arriving there Monday morning during hurricane Katrina. He spent the next 24 hours working with..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Philipp Meyer

Katrina's Collateral Damage (Think Four-Legged and Furry)

AFS Documentary Tour presents Mine

"...well for a tear-jerker about pets left behind during Hurricane Katrina, but it still meets resistance, both from animal..."

April 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Katrina and the Lessons Not Learned

New documentary about Hurricane Katrina uses old footage to teach the same lessons.

"...the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin and said, "(Hurricane) Katrina did not unearth poverty but something more unsettling,..."

July 19, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Congress Using Katrina as Cover to Promote Vouchers

"...Louisiana, Mississippi, and possibly Texas in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is a slap at the constitutions of all..."

Jan. 11, 2006 Postmarks

Hurricane Relief Efforts Under Way in Austin

An estimated 5,000 hurricane evacuees are expected to arrive in Austin this weekend

"...With an estimated 5,000 hurricane evacuees expected to arrive in Austin this weekend, local..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Two Years Since Katrina Hit

It's been two years since Katrina. Where is our heart?

"...to believe, but yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Two years have passed, and still, to this..."

Aug. 30, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate Getty

Hurricane Kids Hit Austin Schools

AISD promises to meet evacuees' needs

"...and federal accountability systems. And the trauma of the hurricane will have ongoing emotional effects requiring counseling and mental..."

Sept. 16, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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