This article uses a framing perspective, an approach to social movement studies concerned with the social construction of values and beliefs that support the actions of social movement actors, to assess the narratives of community practitioners working in post-Katrina New Orleans on a variety of disaster recovery issues. The 25 practitioners worked for 25 different organizations that were focused on neighbourhood revitalization, community development, health/environment, housing, and civil rights. Based on a critical discourse analysis of the interviews, three main types of frames were identified: Restoration, Reform, and Radical Social Change. These discourses are analysed in relationship to the perceptions of success by practitioners of their post-Katrina community re-building work.