basement apartment

A series of events are planned to mark the year since Ida devastated city neighborhoods, but many residents are still waiting for improvements.

“It really felt like there was going to be a sea change when Ida hit ... I'm just completely disappointed at how quickly people seem to forget and move on.”

A council member says tropical storm Ida showed that upgrading units below street level, often occupied by the poor, is a matter of life and death in the era of climate change

Investigators and researchers are unraveling the mixture of calamities that contributed to people perishing in underground dwellings during Ida's flash floods.