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Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans grapples with lingering issues like infrastructure decay, population decline, and political dysfunction. Residents express frustration with slow recovery and unmet expectations.

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Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans grapples with lingering issues like infrastructure decay, population decline, and political dysfunction. Residents express frustration with slow recovery and unmet expectations.
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20 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is β€˜at a Tipping Point’

The city has taken pride in its ability to endure. But many residents, fed up with dysfunction and soaring costs, want it to strive for more.

By Eduardo Medina

Reporting from New Orleans

Aug. 29, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET

Erander Guss-Lee, a security guard, stood outside an auditorium in New Orleans one night this week, hearing fragments of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina that was being screened: Clips of news anchors in the days after the storm, straining to describe the destruction and human suffering. Tearful recollections. Saxophones sounding mournful but defiant notes.

Ms. Guss-Lee just wanted to go home. She was proud of her city β€” no question. But she was not eager to relive Katrina and all the misery that followed.

β€œWe’re still here,” she said. β€œBelieve that.”

New Orleans had survived, which was not necessarily a given in those early days and weeks after the devastating storm. The city looked as if it had been a...

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