200,000 "may need" temporary housing for FIVE YEARS!

[SoCalDem]

I'm sorry, but FIVE YEARS is NOT temporary...Temporary is MONTHS/WEEKS/DAYS.....NOT YEARS..

Give these people the CASH and let them get on with their lives.. If they go elsewhere and buy or rent, let them be the ones to decide when and if they come back to N.O.

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3840755


Some hurricane evacuees might face years in temporary housing

KESQ, CA - 3 hours ago
NEW ORLEANS

Even amid reports that New Orleans could be drained of its flood waters by October eighth -- there are signs some evacuees might have to live in temporary housing for up to five years.

Brad Fair, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's housing effort, says FEMA is planning to house as many as 200-thousand hurricane victims until 2010. Most of them would be housed in temporary cities in Louisiana, some with populations of up to 25-thousand.


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[AllyCat]

2. What is your point?

I don't get it. At least, I hope I don't.

[knowbody0]

9. let's pretend we did not read post #1

and hope it goes away.
there's a village in Florida where people are still living in temp housing. looks like a concentration camp. deep in NO there are families who have lived in the same house for five generations and many of them have never left their neighborhoods. i hope that at least they will have the intelligence to house them with old friends. this is all so fuckin sad
peace

[AllyCat]

11. I'm not doubting this is true.

What I question is poster #2's meaning about not "moving them north, please". It is vague at best and inflammatory at worst.

I've read post #1 and think 5 years is probably a conservative estimate. I have no idea where these people are going to go. It's horrible.

[SoCalDem]

21. I see our "pal" has departed

:)

[knowbody0]

22. i guess it is good to actually see how others feel

but it really gives me a gut ache.

[SoCalDem]

3. Slavery is supposedly OVER.. People are free to go where THEY want

When we moved to California (from New Mexico), no one questioned us at the border to see if we were "suitable" or "acceptable" to the resident bigots....(but then our children are blond and we are white)...

[Tunkamerica]

8. is that sarcasm?

if its not, then you're making nc look bad

[Systematic Chaos]

14. No. Search for other posts he's made.

His stay here will be short enough.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi Tunkamerica!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[AllyCat]

4. But Shrubbie Boy said things are "recovering" there.

What gives? :eyes:

[Erika]

5. What kind of money are you talking about?

If these poor wish to relocate in NO, housing will have to be built for them and it will take years.

[SoCalDem]

7. Why "warehouse" them in "temporary cities" for YEARS..?

I would be willing to bet that if they choose to leave they will be "persuaded" not to..

[bluedawg12]

6. "temporary" for "five years" - GOP-talk.

Provide jobs, work, decent pay, and dignity for these folks.

Spread the money around. Not just for bigbiddness.

[applegrove]

10. That is awful. However - as long as those families are not grieving the

loss of someone - they can overcome such a situation. It isn't fun or pretty or secure. But a house is not a home. A family is. You have to hope.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. reaching for disaster manager hat

Cedar Fires, in California, you remember them? NOt every body is back at home

This disaster... the time line is about two to three years if they don't superfund the place

[tinrobot]

13. Who's going to build those temporary cities?

...ummmm

....uhhhh

...let me guess

Halliburton?

[AllyCat]

15. Bingo! That's what Uncle Dick has been up to this past week n/t

[SoCalDem]

16. New temporary cities:

Halliburtonia, Louisiana
Kelloggville, Louisiana
Brownie, Louisiana(heck of a place)
Rootville, Louisiana
Bushtown, Louisiana
Babsland, Louisiana
Carlyleville, Louisiana

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. you forgot

Bushville

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Here is what I want you to do

and will save some money too

Call your congress critter and local paper... point out that the ICRC is experienced in this... and that they will do it much cheaper than uncle dick.

[sandnsea]

19. There's the port...

the oil, sugar and some other huge businesses there. Maybe they are just talking about temporary housing for the people who have jobs and don't want to leave New Orleans, but can't go back in because of the environmental destruction.