More than two years after it made landfall, Hurricane Katrina continues to torment the people of New Orleans, assisted by the federal government. With housing projects being condemned, FEMA-run trailer parks shutting down and few affordable housing options, the city’s homeless population has gone from 6,300 before the storm to a growing 12,000. “To withdraw housing assistance to the neediest people is a shirking of federal responsibility for the design failure of the federal levees in New Orleans, which was the cause of most of the destruction of affordable housing here,†said Martha J. Kegel, executive director of Unity of Greater New Orleans, in a New York Times article.
Posted by Kristin Mehler
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