This workshop will address disaster capitalism in post-Katrina New Orleans, drawing parallels between the effects of free trade policy and Katrina profiteering. Presenters will discuss the relationship between global restructuring and urban governance, and specifically how the privatization of public housing has destroyed and will continue to disintegrate localized governance and management. We will detail how the displacement of communities who lived in public housing has impacted political power and other aspects of urban governance. We will also discuss how communities of color who have remained in New Orleans, specifically those in privatized, redeveloped housing sites, are criminalized and otherwise rendered unsafe and imprisoned in their own homes. Participants will be asked to brainstorm in break out groups on strategies to make linkages between neo-liberalism, disaster capitalism, and community power, and to regain community power in this context.