Our City Forgot Us Once Again: Hurricane Katrina, The Road Home Program, and How Racism Prevented the Return of the Lower Ninth Ward.

The article focuses on how Hurricane Katrina recovery policies—especially the Road Home Program—used race-neutral language to systematically block the return of Black residents to New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward. Topics include the discriminatory grant formula and resulting resource gaps, long-term depopulation and failed rebuilding efforts in the Lower Ninth Ward, and the program's placement within a broader historical framework of structural racism and socially constructed vulnerability.