Justice Crosses the Tracks: Settlement Brings Katrina Funds to Low-Income Mississippi Residents
Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy
6/2011
Noah C. Shaw
"On the evening of August 28, 2005, when the Mississippi Gulf Coast residents who would later become plaintiffs in Mississippi State Conference NAACP v. HUD, No. 1-08-cv-02140-JR (D.D.C. filed Dec. 10, 2008), fell asleep, they each had a roof over their heads, four walls to hold it up, running water, and electricity. Twenty-four hours later, after Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast and damaged more than 220,000 Mississippi households, all that had changed."
In this article, "Justice Crosses the Tracks: Settlement Brings Katrina Funds to Low Income Mississippi Residents," published in the May-June 2011 issue of Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, Mintz Levin attorney Noah C. Shaw and Joseph D. Rich, Director of the Fair Housing Project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, describe the five year struggle for tens of thousands of Mississippi residents who sought money through the post-Katrina recovery funds.
Click here to read the article in full, which details the pro bono work of Mintz Levin alongside the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Mississippi Center for Justice, to secure long awaited financial relief for those left out of the initial housing recovery.
