We need housing vouchers, not the creation of new "poor neighborhods" Our president's proposal to set up trailer parks, would effectively ghettoize evacuees must be defeated. Listening to Air America earlier a rep from the Brookingings Institute explain that the use of housing vouchers, and utlizing tHUD and our national network of housing agencies is the most effective and efficient way to help these people.
Here is a simple proposal. Register all people in evactuation centers now (which is being done, issue one year rent vouchers, and bring in housing reps from each state who can act as coordinators for other state programs, to be reimbursed by the federal government for one year. That give us one year to determine any appropriate extension of benefits. This will allow people to have a change to integrate themselves into a new community, without forced conentrations of poor in a shrubland. for those who want to return to NO as the city is rebuilt, they can, many will adopt their new homes permanently.