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Key Findings

• Results from the Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study (DNORPS) show that rates of return and mental illness vary by sociodemographic factors, particularly race.
• Housing damage is strongly associated with higher levels of mental illness and accounts for ongoing displacement.
• Fielding the DNORPS shows that it is possible to study this hard-to-survey population and that a full-scale survey is feasible; the challenge is in locating cases.
• The Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey (DNORS), being fielded in 2009–2010, will fill a gap in existing surveys of displaced residents, both complementing and supplementing them.