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nolaboy

(29 posts) Tue Jan 21, 2014, 04:50 AM Jan 2014

(LA) State sends more letters asking residents to return Road Home funds

Source: wwltv.com

NEW ORLEANS -- The state of Louisiana welcomed homeowners to 2014 with a new round of letters asking them to return portions of Road Home grants they received six and seven years ago.

In some cases, the letters are baffling; going to homeowners who completed all of their rebuilding work and followed all of the rules, or even to people who sold their property to the Road Home and should have been done with the whole deal.

The letters have been pouring into mailboxes around the state for the last half year, and many homeowners have felt helpless in the face of what the former chairman of state housing recovery, Walter Leger, called “the potentially awesome power of the state.”

But now, they have an elected official who is calling attention to their plight and calling for state legislative hearings in the next two weeks to address the heavy-handedness of the letters.

Read more: http://www.wwltv.com/news/eyewitness/davidhammer/State-sends-more-letters-to-residents-asking-to-return-Road-Home-funds-241222951.html

Gov. Jindal at his finest...

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(LA) State sends more letters asking residents to return Road Home funds (Original Post) nolaboy Jan 2014 OP

What the? ReRe Jan 2014 #1

Hmmmm ... And yet another fine example why Louisiana RKP5637 Jan 2014 #2

Whether that's ineptitude or hubris I do not know... Chan790 Jan 2014 #3

I have been all over those poor neighborhoods around New Orleans and out side the city Dustlawyer Jan 2014 #4

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(10,597 posts)

1. What the?

Reply to nolaboy (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2014, 06:16 AM

Jan 2014

What will those corrupt republican governors think up next?

RKP5637

(67,108 posts)

2. Hmmmm ... And yet another fine example why Louisiana

Reply to nolaboy (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2014, 08:04 AM

Jan 2014

has its state ranking as it does ... I wonder, are they going to run Jindal for pres. in 2016. Makes about as much sense as Brownback, gov. of KS.

Chan790

(20,176 posts)

3. Whether that's ineptitude or hubris I do not know...

Reply to nolaboy (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2014, 09:21 AM

Jan 2014

but you'd think Jindal would realize that pissing off large numbers of Louisiana residents with crap like that would go a long way to insure he never holds another office, let alone a higher office, ever again.

He already has low approval numbers in Louisiana, if they go much lower he becomes an immediate joke candidate should he run in 2016 for the GOP Presidential nomination.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)

4. I have been all over those poor neighborhoods around New Orleans and out side the city

Reply to nolaboy (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2014, 11:24 AM

Jan 2014

in the areas the Parish (county) is in charge of. They have not cleared all of the mud, fallen trees, and junk from the roads and ditches. Half or more of the houses are boarded up or left in post Katrina condition. Kids were playing around this stuff! It is sad and ugly. The money that was supposed to take care of all of this went somewhere, but not where it was supposed to go. Seeing how the city and the Parish have not taken care of all of their responsibilities, my guess the money went in the pockets of the Governor's cronies!

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