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After Katrina, New Orleans housing goes green
August 29, 2010
Five years after the city was demolished by Hurricane Katrina, public and private partnerships are taking shape in New Orleans that are turning the city into an incubator for new-home building that uses natural resources as well as materials that cost less to maintain.
Entrepreneurial financiers and environmental non-profits consider devastated neighborhoods like the Lower Ninth Ward and Holy Cross blank slates for designing and constructing new homes and tweaking the sustainable technologies that are their hallmarks.
According to an article in the Christian Science Monitor, Global Green President Matt Peterson says New Orleans became the perfect city for testing utopian endeavors because “the failure of government” to rebuild in the wake of Katrina left entire swatches of empty land.
It provided non-profits and social entrepreneurs the opportunity to put in place social innovations, he says, creating a renaissance in green building that will serve as a template not only for New Orleans but also for other cities struggling to address affordable housing issues.
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