> Gentrification has nothing to do with it. Perhaps there something better to call it. But when Katrina comes and wipes the euphemistic slate clean, the poore

> Gentrification has nothing to do with it. Perhaps there something better to call it. But when Katrina comes and wipes the euphemistic slate clean, the poorer people that used to live in those houses aren't coming back to inhabit the same land, they go elsewhere. And the middle-class people that move to the new properties often leave somewhere behind too. It's possible that in the macro, it's just migration patterns, but in the micro there's been a rise in tax revenue, land value etc. in New Orleans.