Help me out. Re: Katrina housing being built at Rockefeller Center (NYC)

[DemoTex]

I just saw a blurb about it last night and tonight on NBC/MSNBC (as I avoid Tweety like the plague). What's the point of building the houses in NYC? What am I missing? Are they to be moved? Why not build them in situ?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I was wondering that, too - I saw "Humanity Square"

I was watching one of the morning shows yesterday, and they were building houses in Bryant Park (looked like Bryant Park, anyway), and calling it "Humanity Square".

But they never said how those houses were gonna get down to New Orleans. What the fuck?

And what the fuck kind of name is that?

[Suich]

2. They don't know where the houses are going to go yet.

They basically do all the framing, then take them apart and ship them. They're reassembled, then sheet-rocked, painted, etc.

[TahitiNut]

3. House-In-A-Box.

They're pre-building the frame and roof, then packaging them with other matierials to be assembled and built on a site at the destination. It's a fabulous idea, imho.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Stupid. No out-of-work people in the devastation area?

Looks like they'll be employing imported immigrant labor at below minimum wage to rebuild the area....unbelievable.

[GOPAgainstGW]

5. It's A Corporate Owned TV Media Stunt. Made Me Throw-Up

[suziedemocrat]

6. They will ship preassembled panels to NOLA, so they can have homes quickly

I saw the head of Habitat for Humanity on Larry King last night. With so many services unavailable in NOLA, they can't start building yet. They want to have as much "pre-assembled" as possible to get as many homes up as quickly as possible once they can go into NOLA. Also, this way they can use labor from volunteers who can't actually go to NOLA.

[DemoTex]

7. OK .. good answers. Thanks.

How will they be shipped? Truck? Train?