From: Royce C Hayes (rc_hayes1@juno.com)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 05:38:56 PDT
If I were in charge of rebuilding or the funding for the rebuilding of
New Orleans, first and foremost, I would not allow any residential single
family dwellings, government assisted housing, or government assisted
apartments, to be funded nor rebuilt within the flood zone in New
Orleans.
If you do, as you know, history repeats itself, and the taxpayers of the
US will be paying for the rebuilding and the evacuation and rebuilding of
the same housing in the future. This type of disaster has been happening
for as long as I can remember, although it may not always be in the same
place each time.
Then, what do you do with the refuges? Let them be absorbed into society
all over the country. If they were not currently employed at the time of
the disaster, then they were not contributing to the New Orleans work
force and do not need to be returning. There is probably nothing for them
to return to anyway unless something is built for them to live in.
Royce
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 01:41:21 -0700 (PDT) "Herb Leong"
<herb@tomobiki.urusei.net> writes:
> Well, "no rebuilding in the flood zone" would mean not rebuilding
> most of New Orleans as most of the city is below sealevel, with
> some parts being as much as 10 feet under. So unless you piled
> fill to get the whole city above sealevel...
>
> So, if someone was born & raised in NO, was unemployed for whatever
> reason, and had to be evacuated from a house that was in his or her
>
> family from when France was in charge, you would advocate that they
>
> should not be eligible for help to go back?
>
> /herb
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