Losing ground: how one New Orleans community is sinking

While land is subsiding throughout the city, industrial water use has exacerbated the problem in one predominantly Black and Vietnamese area

In the early 1990s, James Wright lost his family home in New Orleans' Ninth ward when a new school was built on his block.

They basically took our houses because they gave us very little money for them," he said. And most of the people were old Black people who owned their homes."