Thousands of evacuees face eviction

[Eugene]

Posted 10/31/2005 1:23 AM Updated 10/31/2005 6:43 AM

Thousands of evacuees face eviction

By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Two months after Hurricane Katrina displaced more than
1 million people, problems with federal housing aid threaten to spawn
a new wave of homelessness.

In Texas, thousands of evacuees who found shelter in apartments face
eviction threats because rents are going unpaid.

In Louisiana, some evacuees are beginning to show up in homeless
shelters because they haven't received federal aid or don't know how
to get it.

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The housing crunch could get tighter in November, because the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) wants to move an estimated 200,000
Katrina evacuees out of hotels as soon as possible.

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Full article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-10-31-katrina-evictions_x.htm

[truthisfreedom]

1. evacuees become evicuees as insult is piled upon injury

bush snickers up sleeve

[goddess40]

2. Barbara "the evil one" is probably leading the charge

to have them evicted from all of Texas.

[Ian David]

3. Is there room at Camp Casey in Crawford?

Didn't Bush's neighbor donate a whole bunch of land at the end of The Pig Farm's driveway?

[OneBlueSky]

4. if they took some of the money spend carting ice all over . . .

the country and paid some rent subsidies instead, some of these people might still have homes . . . just one example of the huge amounts of waste generated by Homeland Insecurity and FUBAR (oops, that's FEMA) . . .

[struggle4progress]

5. Hotels No Longer Keeping Evacuees, FEMA Oblivious to 8,000 in NWLA

Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees found refuge in northwest Louisiana, with hotels taking them in, few questions asked. But now, a law passed in early September designed to protect evacuees from being evicted from hotels has expired.

Shreveport's 2-1-1 center has kept track of those evacuees in the area, and say that number stands at around 9,200, with 8,000 in area hotels, almost 1,000 in private homes, and more than 340 in small shelters. The problem, 2-1-1 Director Henry Bass says, began Monday around 5 pm, when he was on the phone with a FEMA representative. Bass says, "these people with FEMA said they weren't aware we had that many evacuees in our area, or in our hotels. And I told him if these people start trickle calls right now, this next week is going to be something else for us because our housing market is already maxed out as it was".

I spoke with Louisiana Hurricane Housing Coordinator Col. William Croft, who says FEMA and the state are trying to evaluate the magnitude of the problem, to come up with a course of action. I asked what the course of action would be, and croft replied, travel trailers, mobile homes, or FEMA could pay for evacuees to stay in hotels somewhere else. Bass says we could have big problems if hotels ask those evacuees to leave. Bass says, "there's nowhere for them to go. We need more housing and we need it immediately". <snip>

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