Edited sentence: New Orleans population has been declining in the past forty years and everyone is hoping that rebuilding new orleans will bring new life to the city and new residents and that more of the upstanding former citizens that relocated to the suburbs will possibly decide to return to New Orleans and take advantage of its soon to be new, beautiful, shiny, clean facade.Now that its populace has been scattered by Hurricane Katrina, officials are hoping that most of the city's famous rift-raft (aka.gangs, speed demons, and other offenders) will stay werever they are staying at this moment