Road Home meant different outcomes across neighborhoods | Business News

The Road Home program aimed to help Louisiana residents rebuild after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, with the goal of covering the gap between what insurance and FEMA assistance paid for and what it would actually take to fix the damage and put people back in their houses. 

But a new analysis by The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, ProPublica and WWL-TV shows the program not only fell short of that goal but particularly shortchanged those in the poorest areas of New Orleans. The program also left residents of St. Bernard Parish far behind homeowners in other areas, regardless of their income.

One source of those disparities was baked into the formula that governed funding from the Road Home. Initially, the program was designed to provide homeowners the lower of two amounts: the pre-storm value of…

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