If the house wasn't totally submerged, I would think a new load of sheet rock might make them habitable
IMO, in most cases, it will require a lot more than that. A lot of the houses will have to be stripped down to the frame and that's IF the foundations are in OK shape. Floorboards will be buckled, insulation saturated... Rehabbing is extremely labor intensive. In a lot of cases, it will be more cost efficient to bulldoze & start over.
I know one thing for sure..if i lived in
one of the lower (poor) districts, and i got
*out* of New Orleans...I'd *never* go back...
certainly not to live there.
It's a death trap waiting to happen again.
If not by anoyjer Hurricane in this new cycle
of strong Hurrixane seasons, then by disease
that will allways be right rgere, under the
surgaces, if not on them..even a year from now...
would you let one of *your* children play on
the floor of one of these houses?