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Just down the street, a two-story brick building that used to be a school still advertises a graduation ceremony that never happened in 2005 on its marquee, though some of the letters have fallen off.Īll over the rest of the city, yellow flowers grow out of roofs and windows, engulfing houses with a bed of bright flora.

The house across the street from Fortune's, like many houses in New Orleans, still bears the infamous crosses that designate they were inspected for gas leaks, abandoned animals, dead dogs, or dead people. Chickens roam the streets in the Seventh Ward and opossums crawl into garbage cans. Soldiers escorted him out of the neighborhood during The Storm (which is how locals refer to Hurricane Katrina) and standing in front of a house where a hurricane evacuation plan is still posted, he raises his hand just above his belly to indicate what the water levels were. Anthony Street, in the Seventh Ward, watching his neighbors walk past and greeting all of them. Fortune spends his afternoons sitting on his porch on St. Some residents returned to their homes in these neighborhoods, while their neighbors' homes are still vacant and deteriorating.Ĭ.J. The Lower Ninth Ward lost 85 percent of its population.īut what most people don't know is that many of the houses and buildings in the rest of New Orleans-the Seventh Ward, Lakeview, Central City, the Upper Ninth Ward, New Orleans East-also sustained up to 15 feet of water, leaving them standing, but rendering them uninhabitable. There wasn't much to return to in those neighborhoods. Aside from a few new homes that Brad Pitt is building (which he seems to be styling after spaceships), much of the Lower Ninth Ward remains desolate, with nothing but scattered piles of old tires and weeds tall enough for an adult to disappear in. The Lower Ninth Ward garnered most of the national attention after the floodwaters swept many houses off their foundations.