10 Years After Katrina: Photos Before and After

May 12, 2015: The B.W. Cooper housing projects in New Orleans was replaced by two-story townhouse homes, but rubble still remains on site.

June 10, 2007: The housing project, which once housed 1,000 families in New Orleans, stood 80 percent empty two years after Hurricane Katrina.

August 28, 2007: A year after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the Christian Community Baptist Church in the Lower Ninth Ward is gutted and in the initial stages of being rebuilt.

May 10, 2015: Parishioners gathering at the Christian Community Baptist Church earlier this year.

September 11, 2005: Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, floodwaters in the above-ground cemetery at Saint Patrick's Church in Plaquemines Parish in Port Sulphur.

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