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.
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.
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.
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.
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