Post-Hurricane Katrina Research and Recovery Work Frederick D. Weil Department of Sociology Louisiana State University email: fweil@lsu.edu Contractor Fraud Survey Contractor fraud is a major challenge in New Orleans' recovery from disaster. Survey in collaboration with LouisianaRebuilds.Info, an organization and website that helps Louisiana residents get information, resources, and recovery/rebuilding assistance and support; and with PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity by "lifting up what works." Survey completed in early 2009; for an initial Report, see here. And a PolicyLink paper partly based on the report, here or here The Baton Rouge Advocate ran a front-page story on this survey before we even finished collecting data! Of course, there were no results to report, but interest will be high. Story is here.   back to top Back to my Post-Katrina work (start page) Back to my teaching Home page All original material copyright (c) 2005-2013, by Frederick Weil, all rights reserved. May be cited for scholarly purposes with attribution, except where noted.