Developer Plans City-From-Scratch For Displaced Katrina Victims

Developer Plans City-From-Scratch For Displaced Katrina Victims

He imagines a new city here for the estimated 72,000 storm victims still scattered across the state in government trailers. He imagines them living in good, modest homes in the safety of the piney woods. He imagines many of them commuting to the jammed casinos that remain anchored, by state law, to the perilous coast, where housing is still hard to find.

"If we don't do something out here," Adkinson said, gesturing at the trees with his Marlboro Light, "nothing's going to get done."

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