Reese Sims, a former resident of North Prieur Street in New Orleans, surveys the hurricane damage in his neighborhood, an area wherein five Habitat houses were significantly damaged.

• Percentage of New Orleans residents living below the poverty level in 2003: 20.8
  
  
• Rank of New Orleans among American cities with the highest rates of poverty: 17
  
  
• Ratio of African-American households in New Orleans that did not have access to a car in 2000: 1 in 3
  
  
• Percentage of evacuees in Houston shelters who had not heard about the evacuation order before the hurricane hit: 25
  
  
• Percentage of evacuees in Houston who say they will never fully recover from the effects of the hurricane: 38

--Drum Major Institute for Public Policy