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The Suppression Weight · Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans

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+13SUPPRESSED+12PERSISTENT+11ENGINEERED+6POST-DISASTER+4DATALOWER NINTH WARD25↓66–76
Dharma verdict
66–76. Suppressed, not low.
Recommendation: invest. A gap of +46 held down by sourced, addressable conditions. The gap is the return. (Gap +46)
What's holding the 25 down
Suppressed post-disaster rebuilding (Road Home formula)
+13.3
Persistent population non-return
+11.9
Engineered flood-risk & environmental burden
+10.5
Post-disaster health burden
+6.3
Data undercount (low)
+4.0
CC 25  +  uplift +46LV 66–76
Current Conditions 25 + sourced suppression +46 = Latent Value 66–76. Click any factor to see the receipt.
Capital × Community Trust

Amber dot = Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans · dot size = latent gap (LV − CC) · click any dot to open its report.

Trust is a core axis of this thesis, not a footnote. High capital with low trust is exactly the pattern the Suppression Weight is built to surface — the Dharma Zone is where capital and trust move together.

LATENTlow capital · high trust

Trust is high but capital hasn’t arrived yet — the upside the thesis chases.

DHARMA ZONEhigh capital · high trust

Capital and community trust move together — the healthy target state.

SUPPRESSEDlow capital · low trust

Both capital and trust are held down — the starting condition suppression creates.

EXTRACTIVEhigh capital · low trust

Money is flowing in but the community doesn’t trust it — value is pulled out, not built.

v1 placeholder calibration (rho=0.80, ceiling=100). No headlineBand pinned (no external pitch value supplied); the engine derives the band from mean confidence. quadrant.capital/trust are a qualitative placement, refine with the content owner. This record prices the present-day suppressed-recovery residual (Road Home appraisal-formula bias, uneven repopulation, engineered flood-risk concentration, health burden, undercount), not the 2005 storm/flood event itself. A standalone 1930s HOLC redlining-grade factor was folded into `recovery` rather than shipped independently — see kill-rule notes in the receipts doc.