A humanitarian aid agency supporting the transitional settlement and shelter of populations affected by conflict and natural disasters, supporting human rights, dignity, protection, health, environment, and livelihoods.
Posting by Witold Rybczynski looking at lessons from past attempts to provide emergency shelter and housing to victims of disasters.
Listing of shelter locations across U.S. for Hurricane Katrina victims. Site include maps of available shelters and updated status information.
Situation reports and power outage maps from the DOE's Office of Electricity, Delivery and Energy Reliability. Covers impacts on municipal electrical power as well as impacts on petroleum and gas industry.
Multi-organizational partnership among some of the nation’s leading non-profit disaster relief organizations to maintain a joint shelter resident registration, shelter tracking module, and service site database.
Overview of completed and planned actions by US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development in response to Hurricane Katrina.
A matching service provided by MoveOn.org to allow peope to offer housing for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
"New Orleans had long known it was highly vulnerable to flooding and a direct hit from a hurricane. In fact, the federal government has been working with state and local officials ... since the late 1960s on major hurricane and flood relief efforts."
Article outling "what the hurricane can teach about handling natural disasters and energy policy better".
The NY Times has an interesting map of New Orleans, with information about flooding levels, income, race, elevation, and points of interest.
