Obama Admin: Katrina Victims Will Not Have to Vacate Trailers

I hadn't seen this posted at GD:P. It is great news for some of our most needy people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/04trailers.html?hp

WTF was FEMA thinking anyway, trying to kick these people out? Where in the hell were they supposed to go?

I was getting worried there for a bit. Refugees should not be ousted due to a timetable set by people who have houses to go home to.

It would cost as much or more to take them back and clean them than it would to get new one's.

Many people who lost homes in the storm struggled to keep them renovated before Katrina. The money just wasn't there. There were a few slum lords who were negligent, but for the most part these were homes lived in by the owners, many in bad shape. The repairs needed were typically drastic, foundation leveling and termite damage that almost required rebuilding.

When you don't have the money, you don't have the money. It sounds simple, but some just don't understand how entrenched poverty was and is in New Orleans. I knew people who worked 2 jobs at $6 an hour and took the bus to both of them. Many couldn't afford cars let alone houses or house renovation. The FEMA trailers are a crucial backstop to homelessness in a city that was destroying housing projects pre-Katrina.

Katrina shone a brief light on the plight of the poor in New Orleans. This was not enough to create the necessary political will to address the problems. It would require too much change from those happy with things the way they are. It's a big knot to untangle and the powerful are still pulling on the rope.

This makes much more sense. I mean really it's not like after nearly 4 years the city has been rebuilt or anything. It's a crying shame that after all this time people still have to live in trailers. It would have been an even bigger disgrace had they been put out in the street.

I hope there's a special place in hell for the Bush administration for allowing these people to be ignored for all this time. (A major city in this country destroyed and it's still not been put right after all this time? Absolutely disgraceful!

into People caring about People:wow:

these poor people out onto the street.

survivors! Finally, a President who recognizes that these people have suffered more than anyone ever should at the hands of a incompetent and uncaring government.

Bravo.

and then tear down the trailers? What is this world coming to?!?

Seriously, give them the trailers. Just give them the trailers.