All Reports & Analysis

Slides: Drivers of Housing Demand

Dec 01, 2011

Housing Development and Abandonment in New Orleans: Slides

Dec 01, 2011

Drivers of Housing Demand: Preparing for the Impending Elder Boom

Nov 16, 2011

How will the aging of the baby boomers affect housing demand? And how can we leverage this demographic shift to increase our population and reduce blight? This report examines 2010 census data, ACS data, and other data sets to answer these questions.

Housing Development and Abandonment in New Orleans

Oct 28, 2011

This brief examines 2010 census data for New Orleans’ neighborhoods and the metro area, and identifies changes from past decades. Included are data on households with elderly and children, single person households by age, vacant units by type of vacancy, renter–occupied and owner–occupied units, and households by race and ethnicity.

Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita

Sep 30, 2011

Resilience and Opportunity, published by Brookings Institution Press, builds on the author essays from The New Orleans Index at Five collection, which reported about important post–Katrina reform efforts, with additional reforms from Mississippi.

Homeownership, Household Makeup, and Latino and Vietnamese Population Growth in the New Orleans Metro

Jun 14, 2011

This brief examines 2010 census data for all parishes in the New Orleans metro and identifies changes from past decades. Included are data on homeownership rate, household makeup, and the Latino and Vietnamese populations.

Changes in household size and group quarters populations across the New Orleans metro

May 17, 2011

This brief examines 2010 census data for New Orleans’ neighborhoods and the metro area, and identifies changes from past decades. Included are data on average household size and populations in nursing homes, adult correctional facilities, juvenile facilities, military barracks, college housing, and other group quarters.

Fewer jobs mean fewer people and more vacant housing

May 02, 2011

How has job growth impacted population and vacant housing in the New Orleans metro? This brief, entitled Fewer jobs mean fewer people and more vacant housing, examines what New Orleans can do to attract population and reduce blight.

What Census 2010 Reveals about Population and Housing in New Orleans and the Metro Area

Mar 17, 2011

This brief examines 2010 census data for New Orleans and the metro area, and identifies changes from past decades. Included are data on total population, age, race/ethnicity, number of housing units and occupancy status.

Shifts in Population and Loss of Children across the New Orleans Metro Area

Feb 17, 2011

This brief examines 2010 census data for all of the cities, towns and parishes in the New Orleans Metro Area and identifies changes from past decades. Included are total population counts and child population counts.