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• HUD Names New Leadership for Troubled New Orleans Agency

  Federal housing officials have put a new team in place to lead the troubled Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO).

• Back to School

  A DOCUMENTARY SERIES following a group of Tulane University architecture students as they design and build a single-family home in a low-income neighborhood of New Orleans has been airing on the Sundance Channel.

• Hanging Moss

  New Orleans—How long does it take to recover from a hurricane? Natives here can't say for sure, but most can see that, while rebuilt homes, businesses, and apartment buildings may line many streets, getting back to full strength is likely to take much longer than three years.

• Work in Progress

  It didn’t take long for Katrina to sweep through the Gulf Coast and displace thousands of New Orleans residents.

• Raised Floors for the Low Country

  Elevated floors on pier foundations are mandated in V zones and recommended in coastal A zones. But the moisture and energy details can be a head-scratcher. Whether a builder places the floor system on pier supports or on a perimeter stemwall, he has to face interrelated problems of air sealing...

• NRP Diversifies to Grow

  GONZALES, LA -- The Louisiana office of The NRP Group, LLC, opened in May 2006 in a single-family home in this small town outside of New Orleans. It was just nine months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

• More Questions Than Answers

  So many variables exist in the Baton Rouge rental market, it would aggravate a gaggle of math geeks.

• ‘Let The People In’

  NEW ORLEANS — On Dec. 20, police clashed with residents and housing activists at New Orleans City Hall.

• Who needs Brad Pitt?

  NEW ORLEANS—Visiting this city for the first time since Katrina, I was not that shocked by what I saw.

• Southern Promises

  NEW ORLEANS — Two-and-a-half years after Hurricane Katrina, many who called New Orleans home continue to live in trailers tainted by formaldehyde or with relatives in California or in apartments in Houston or in dark cracks where they have slipped unknown into the American landscape.