Who here thinks that low income housing will be rebuilt in NOLA?

[Mika]

Not I.

[chalky]

1. After the firestorm created by this past week...

you'd better believe there will be some low income housing.

[XanaDUer]

2. I envision yuppie condoes

and the like, unless the housing bubble bursts.

Of course, some small good news is that much of the old quarter is intact.

[CTD]

3. Of course it will be.

You need people to work in the hotels and restaurants and do other minimum-wage-type jobs. And if folks have to travel too far to get to work, their employers end up having to pay more than minimum wage (it has to cover their expensese of getting to work or else it makes no sense to take the job).

Cheap labor drives large segments of our economy. The Republicans know this better than anyone.

There will be low-income housing in the city. Guaranteed.

[2Design]

4. like sri lnaka - developers will take land and build mcMansions

they have no intention of letting poor back - they will use the new Supreme court eminent domain

[FloridaPat]

5. They said a lot of them were historical buildings. They would have to

be completly gutted to be rebuilt because of the water. There is mold problems and rotten wood problems by the time they get the water down.

[RegexReader]

10. I feel like that a lot won't be rebuilt at all due to the cost

and that there was such a high % of blue parishes there.



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[babylonsister]

6. Gambling casinos, w/housing for employees and

hotels for tourists.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Oh they'll build some for the servants and manual laborers

but since they killed as many people as possible they certainly won't need has many units.

[Winston702]

8. I don't think they will rebuild as much

because there will be less need. The refugees on government assistance will simply continue on assistance in their new communities.

[demo dutch]

9. A statement from Carter said that his organization is committed

[mom cat]

11. It is so obvious.

[titoresque]

12. Nope.....3 words.......

imminent domain........bancruptcy...........Countryclub!!!!

[Cobalt Violet]

13. I don't think so.

I don't see it being done.

[NYYFan]

14. Nope

I wouldn't hold my breath.

[rzemanfl]

15. I see New Orleans being a frontier type of town housing workers

for the port and oil industry and not much else. Never again a convention/tourist/university/hospital community. It's a godamn shame, but the port and the refineries and oil rigs are the only things essential to the rest of the country. Wokers will get hardship pay and go there strictly for the money, without their families.

Godamnit anyway.

[tkmorris]

16. I've been saying that for awhile

All those people that got bussed outta there to Houston and points west? Most of them will not be going back. Ever. The neighborhoods they lived in will not be rebuilt for the likes of them.

[dcfirefighter]

18. regarding ports, etc.

New orleans has no reason to exist except for the french quarter now. The river has been trying to redirect itself to the Atchafalaya for years. You can't fight mother nature.

They should rebuild port facilities near on the Atchafalaya, and only restore New Orleans to the defensible high ground of the boutique districts.

Hate to say it, but it's the truth.

[applegrove]

17. Bush owes them money to rebuild their homes and deeds to the land.

[Garbo 2004]

19. It will go from an irresponsibly stupid place to build a city to prime

real estate. Just guessin'.

[Mika]

20. Agreed. AFTER they build hardened levees.

All going acording to plan. :(

[jpgray]

21. If it is destroyed beyond repair, maybe

If it is up to the Feds and Congress, nope. A social safety net in a disaster or in regular life is anathema to the majority party right now.