Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (CNN) Ten years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, President Barack Obama will visit the city next week to tour neighborhoods and meet with families still recovering from the devastation.

He'll meet with Mayor Mitch Landrieu to discuss rebuilding efforts and deliver remarks promoting economic innovation in the storm's aftermath, the White House said Wednesday.

When Obama took office in 2009, the effects of the storm four years earlier were still readily seen in New Orleans, where entire neighborhoods were condemned after flooding.

Hurricane Katrina left some 1,800 dead and a million people displaced, and laid bare the socioeconomic and racial disparities rampant along the Gulf Coast.

Speaking at the fifth anniversary of the disaster, Obama lambasted the response from President George W. Bush's administration, terming it "a shameful breakdown in government."

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