Katrina Pain Index - Three Years Later:

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0 - Number of renters in Louisiana who have received financial assistance from the $10 billion federal post-Katrina rebuilding program Road Home Community Development Block Grant – compared to 116,708 homeowners.

0 - Number of apartments currently being built to replace the 963 public housing apartments formerly occupied and now demolished at the St. Bernard Housing Development.

.008 - Percentage of the rental homes that were supposed to be repaired and occupied by August 2008 which were actually completed and occupied – a total of 82 finished out of 10,000 projected.

1 - Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in percentage of housing vacant or ruined.

1 - Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in murders per capita for 2006 and 2007.

4 - Number of the 13 City of New Orleans Planning Districts that are at the same risk of flooding as they were before Katrina.

10 - Number of apartments being rehabbed so far to replace the 896 apartments formerly occupied and now demolished at the Lafitte Housing Development.

11 - Percent of families who have returned to live in Lower Ninth Ward.

20-25 - Years that experts estimate it will take to rebuild the City of New Orleans at current pace.

25 - Percent fewer hospitals in metro New Orleans than before Katrina.

38 - Percent fewer hospital beds in New Orleans since Katrina.

43 - Percentage of child care available in New Orleans compared to before Katrina.

46 - Percentage increase in rents in New Orleans since Katrina.

56 - Percentage fewer inpatient psychiatric beds than before Katrina.

80 - Percentage fewer public transportation buses now than pre-Katrina.

81 - Percentage of homeowners in New Orleans who received insufficient funds to cover the complete costs to repair their homes.

1080 - Days National Guard troops have remained in City of New Orleans.

6,982 - Number of families still living in FEMA trailers in metro New Orleans area.

8,000 - Fewer publicly assisted rental apartments planned for New Orleans by federal government.

10,000 - Houses demolished in New Orleans since Katrina.

12,000 - Number of homeless in New Orleans even after camps of people living under the bridge has been resettled - double the pre-Katrina number.

55,000 - Fewer houses receiving mail than before Katrina.

62,000 - Fewer people in New Orleans enrolled in Medicaid public healthcare than pre-Katrina.

71,657 - Vacant, ruined, unoccupied houses in New Orleans today.

124,000 - Fewer people working in metropolitan New Orleans than pre-Katrina.

1.9 billion - FEMA dollars scheduled to be available to metro New Orleans for Katrina damages that have not yet been delivered.

2.6 billion - FEMA dollars scheduled to be available to State of Louisiana for Katrina damages that have not yet been delivered.

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