African-Americans living in New Orleans were also disproportionately badly hit by the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A Brookings Institution report on the disaster found that ‘those areas hit hardest by the flood were disproportionately non-white. Overall, blacks and other minority residents made up 58 percent of those whose neighborhoods were flooded, though they encompassed just 45 percent of the metropolitan population.’ 9 Within the city itself, 80 per cent of people who had lived in the flooded areas were non-white. Escaping the stricken city was harder for people in the flooded areas, because one in five of them had no access to a car, compared to one in ten without access in the dry areas.
African-Americans living in New Orleans were also disproportionately badly hit by the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A Brookings Institution report on the disaster found that ‘those areas hit hardest by the flood were disproportionately non-white. Overall, blacks and other minority residents made up 58 percent of those whose neighborhoods were flooded, though they encompassed just 45 percent of the metropolitan population.’ 9 Within the city itself, 80 per cent of people who had lived in the flooded areas were non-white. Escaping the stricken city was harder for people in the flooded areas, because one in five of them had no access to a car, compared to one in ten without access in the dry areas.
['Ethnic, racial or other minorities']