Reports Document Failures Post-Katrina

[Rose Siding]

NEW ORLEANS -- No less than a half-dozen reports on the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort are being released to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the storm _ and nearly all criticize the sluggish pace of the response.

The reports document a host of problems, from the still-unfinished levees to the plight of small businesses and the city's continuing racial divide.
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Three reports found that the lack of federal aid disproportionately affects black residents and the poor.

In Louisiana and Mississippi, blacks are more likely to be renters than whites, two reports noted, citing census data. Though a large proportion of the dwellings destroyed by Katrina were occupied by renters, only a fraction of the federal housing assistance has been earmarked for rental units, according to several of the studies.....

Compounding the problem is the degradation of such services as public transit, which are typically used by low-income residents. A policy paper by the Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil Rights found that only 49 percent of the New Orleans area bus routes have resumed. Only 17 percent of the buses are operational.

"Many of the poor in New Orleans do not own cars ... so they are dependent on public transportation in order to work," the paper said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082200988.html

[deadparrot]

1. Reports document failures post-Katrina

NEW ORLEANS - No less than a half-dozen reports on the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort are being released to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the storm — and nearly all criticize the sluggish pace of the response.

The reports document a host of problems, from the still-unfinished levees to the plight of small businesses and the city's continuing racial divide.

"It's a pretty bleak picture," said Minor Sinclair, who heads the U.S. regional office of Oxfam America, a charitable organization.

Many of the reports focus on the failure of federal dollars to reach their intended targets. Oxfam's report points out that although $17 billion has been approved by Congress to rebuild homes in Louisiana and Mississippi, not one house has been rebuilt with that money in either state.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060823/ap_on_re_us/katrina_reports

[LynnTheDem]

2. "not one house has been rebuilt"...

Sounds like Iraq...is Halliburton in charge of rebuilding in NO, too?

The Great Leader bush; most useless piece of shit ever.

[pitohui]

3. they only started making paperwork available a couple weeks ago

and apparently it's going to be an act of congress for everybody to get their paperwork filled out and investigated and approved

[rodeodance]

4. people need to remember this come NOV!!