We have friends who live in mid-city. According to them, the core of the city..what most people think of as NOLA, has been pretty well cleaned up and rebuilt. But over in the 9th and the farther you get from the city center, it is still in pretty rough shape. There are lots of blocks where only 1 or 2 homes are rehabbed, and the others are empty and still wrecked. I think they've still got a long way to
go.