NEW ORLEANS-Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated this vibrant city, affordable housing options are limited, particularly for low-income women who previously lived in public housing.

A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research titled “Mounting Losses: Women and Public Housing After Hurricane Katrina,” shows that market rates for rental apartments have risen and nearly all the old public apartments have been removed. Data released by HUD demonstrates a 39% increase in rent from 2005 to 2008.

Many former residents of public housing, most of whom were low-income African American women and their children, are still displaced because mixed-income developments are replacing the city’s former public housing communities, which previously housed thousands of families.