New Orleans: 4 years after Katrina

Post-Katrina: A new home is under construction in the New Orleans area in this 2006 photo. Copyright Inman News

In New Orleans, you don't need a calendar to remember Hurricane Katrina -- four years later, its deep scars are still very visible in the area's real estate landscape.

Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, marks the fourth anniversary for the Louisiana landfall of one of the most devastating hurricanes in U.S. history.

Hurricane Katrina killed an estimated 1,836 people in the Gulf Coast region, destroying or damaging hundreds of thousands of homes and displacing an estimated 750,000 households.

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