<![CDATA[Slow-Walking Disaster Response Four Years Later]]>

1.0 link 210288 <![CDATA[Slow-Walking Disaster Response Four Years Later]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/slow-walking-disaster-res_b_210288.html New Orleans has an affordable-rental-housing crisis, in the wake of the failure of the federal levees in 2005. Best estimates are that some 80,000 rental units were whacked by the floodwaters. A multi-billion-dollar federal program, creaking slowly into high gear, gave so-called Road Home money to homeowners to rebuild flooded properties (some of the folks being evicted by FEMA from their trailers are elderly people living in trailers on their lawns as they painstakingly restore their homes).

But rental housing --...

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