Community Quote by Jesmyn Ward

Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

— Donna Brazile

On one hand, I can say, you know, I had many family members - I had many people in my extended family who left…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there…

— Jesmyn Ward

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

— Misha Collins

Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back.

— Jay Leno

Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result…

— Jo Bonner

As you know, Hurricane Sandy has affected thousands of families, leaving them without electricity, without household goods and, in the worst cases, without a…

— Thalia

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry,…

— Frank Ocean

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to…

— Jim Carrey

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60…

— Lauryn Hill