The New York Times investigates New Orleans communities, housing, businesses, schools and more in "Ten Years After Katrina." The multimedia piece also features maps based on data from Social Explorer. Selections from the article by Campbell Robertson and Richard Fausset are below:

It is a wonder that any of it is here at all: The scattered faithful gathering into Beulah Land Baptist Church on a Sunday morning in the Lower Ninth Ward. The men on stoops in Mid-City swapping gossip in the August dusk. The brass band in Tremé, the lawyers in Lakeview, the new homeowners in Pontchartrain Park.

On Aug. 29, 2005, it all seemed lost. Four-fifths of the city lay submerged as residents frantically signaled for help from their rooftops and thousands were stranded at the Superdome, a congregation of the desperate and poor. From the moment the storm surge of Hurricane Katrina dismantled a fatally defective levee system, New Orleans became a global symbol of American dysfunction and government negligence. At every level and in every duty, from engineering to social policy to basic logistics, there were revelations of malfunction and failure before, during, and after Katrina.

Ten years later, it is not exactly right to say that New Orleans is back. The city did not return, not as it was.

• Lost Population: more than 1,400 people died, and tens of thousands left the city.  From 2000 to 2013, the black population decreased by almost 100,000. The white population decreased by about 11,000, but it is wealthier.

The city that exists in 2015 has been altered, by both a decade of institutional re-engineering and the artless rearrangement that occurs when people are left to fend for themselves.

As before, there are two cities here. One is booming, more vibrant than ever, still beautiful in its best-known neighborhoods and expanding into places once written off; the other is returning to pre-Katrina realities of poverty and routine violence, but with a new sense of dislocation for many as well.

• The overall poverty rate (about 40 percent) and the child poverty rate (almost 30 percent) have remained high.
• Violent crime remains a chronic condition, and efforts, both federal and local, to fix the city’s criminal justice system have had mixed results: While the city’s jail population has been substantially reduced, the incarceration rate is more than twice the national average.
• In a recent ranking of 300 American cities by income inequality based on census data, New Orleans came in second, a gap that falls starkly along racial lines. (According to the Data Center, a New Orleans-based think tank focusing on Southern Louisiana, the median income of black households here is 54 percent lower than that of white households.)
• The Lower Nine is now one of only four city neighborhoods that has less than half of its pre-Katrina population. The other three are sites of demolished housing projects.

• Some neighborhoods, have seen median home values as much as triple with home prices close to $1 million.
• A few of the most prominent landlords are black, but according to census data, the percentage of white Tremé residents in 2013, at 36 percent, was more than twice what it was in 2000. Four out of five of them were not Louisiana-born.
• The affordable housing stock has decreased–New Orleans housing developments that used to house 3,077 families before Katrina have been replaced by 1,829 apartments. And only about 40 percent of them are offered at traditional public housing rents, according to the housing authority, with the rest at higher market rates or a tier in between.
• When the levees breached, the East flooded catastrophically. It had already been struggling. Now it is poorer. Many professionals chose to stay in Houston. Veteran teachers, laid off by the thousands after Katrina, thus making the the school overhaul possible, had to seek new jobs in Atlanta or Baton Rouge. 

Read the full article and browse the maps here.