New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward Targeted For Gentrification: 'It's Going To Feel Like It Belongs To The Rich'

New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward Targeted For Gentrification
Subrina McCrary walks on Flood Street across the street from her home, a blue double in the background, in the lower ninth ward Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 in New Orleans. McCrary believes President Barack Obama can support New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina by creating more jobs and helping build better schools. What she doesn't want is Obama using her Lower 9th Ward neighborhood as just another photo op. On Thursday, Obama makes his first visit to the city since becoming president, and McCrary's community will be one of the stops. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)
Subrina McCrary walks on Flood Street across the street from her home, a blue double in the background, in the lower ninth ward Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 in New Orleans. McCrary believes President Barack Obama can support New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina by creating more jobs and helping build better schools. What she doesn't want is Obama using her Lower 9th Ward neighborhood as just another photo op. On Thursday, Obama makes his first visit to the city since becoming president, and McCrary's community will be one of the stops. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)

Kim Ford never expected to see her neighborhood like this, still struggling nine and a half years after Hurricane Katrina.

Katrina displaced Ford’s family for months. Her house was flooded; she and her husband lost their jobs. Ford could have left New Orleans, but she decided to stay. It was an attempt to help make her neighborhood whole again.

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