The Lower Ninth Ward’s destruction by Katrina resulted from redlining and neoliberal privatization

Evidence

So post-Katrina New Orleans has simply made bare for all to see what neoliberalizing America amounts to. The impact of redlining can be found etched into the urban landscape of contemporary New Orleans. The Lower Ninth Ward is neither mistake nor oversight. Its destruction by Katrina and its burial by FEMA were as surely the outcome of neoliberal privatization as its neglected condition was a product of the history of redlining, of the segregating racial state. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 440 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Katrina laid bare that neoliberalism and segregation jointly structure urban space — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 440; Disaster capitalism let politicians profit from Katrina’s destruction — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1199; Federal housing programs institutionalized residential segregation through redlining and demolition — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1196 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Katrina laid bare that neoliberalism and segregation jointly structure urban space #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 440