People offering housing to Katrina victims on Craigslist

[Glenda]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/01/residents_open_homes_to_katrina_refugees/

Residents open homes to Katrina refugees

"I have space and people need help. That's just it," said Rainey, who is offering the bedroom for $1. "I can't just keep crying when I can reach out and help people."

Across the nation, people like Rainey are offering up their homes as temporary shelters to the storm's refugees. On the Web site craigslist.org, hundreds of people -- some from as far as Oregon and New Hampshire -- are eagerly offering free or extremely cheap room and board for victims, even knowing those strangers may stay for months.

"We've got all this room. Why not host a family, a couple, someone who needs help?" asked Linda Donewald, an empty-nester who is offering her Mesa, Ariz., home to refugees along with space for a pet cat or dog. "Even if it's 110 degrees, I'm sitting here on dry land. And these people have nothing."
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Some of the more fortunate victims with Internet access were promptly able to find housing. Just 20 minutes after Brenda Moreshead posted an online message offering three bedrooms and a finished basement in her suburban Atlanta home to storm victims, she got a phone call from two sisters from New Orleans who were at a motel in Arkansas.

[Pool Hall Ace]

1. There are many generous people at nola.com doing this, too.

I can't get to your link, though. Why is she asking for $1 ?

[Glenda]

3. I think in certain "selling" areas of craigslist, it requires you...

to put a price. So I think she had to give it $1 just to get the ad up. I may be mis-remembering, but I think this is the case.

[Pool Hall Ace]

4. Oh, okay. After I posted, I thought it might be something like that.

:hi:

[OhioChick]

2. They were talking about

craigslist on the radio here yesterday and how people were offering their homes to people.

[ima_sinnic]

5. oh, I am so frustrated -- we have committed to sell our duplex

and closing is in 2 weeks. Mr. sinnic is very ill and wants to return to his own country to stay with his family. I have been thinking all morning how, if I had the power, I would offer one of the 2-bedroom apts to a family rent-free for 6 months to a year (I live in the other half), until they could get on their feet. VERY glad to hear others are offering housing.