Kartrina "Repopulation Fund"...

[cascadiance]

I was just thinking about all of this potential "eminent domain" and other threats to try and do "land grabs" of New Orleans for wealthier outsiders instead of the original inhabitants of New Orleans, and in addition to rebuilding the housing there that people can afford to live in who lived there before, I wonder how well funded the people displaced to other states will be to be able to return to New Orleans when the opportunity is there for them to return.

I wonder if we should set up some sort of "Repopulation Fund" dedicated to help people to do this that aren't able to otherwise. Hopefully our government would do this, and we should demand as much as possible that they do. But if they don't, perhaps we all can help putting together some money to help the most needy that want to commit to living there and helping rebuild the city, to get money to move themselves and their belongings back to the city and populate it back with good Dems to keep Louisiana blue! Is there any effort to do this sort of thing being looked at already?

[Missy M]

1. Are they planning anything at Habitat for Humanity?

It seems that would be a good place to start.

[pitohui]

2. don't know but it should be looked at

i hate to sound crass at such a time but we have just seen a massive diaspora of the democratic voters, relocating them to houston & even beyond

many of these folks are the poorest of the poor, as in unable to work for reasons of age or disability, therefore, they are not going to be able to save up money for investment & return

they will need assistance if they are to return

i can't see the gop funding this

they have just destroyed a huge voting block of dem voters & changed the state from a mostly or often dem voting state into a gop state

do you honestly see them assisting dem voters getting back where they started

i think cleo fields, william jefferson, and others will try to do something, but i also think the feds are doing their damnedest to destroy them

there is an added twist, some ppl will be so traumatized they will be unwilling to return, i have heard several ppl including the hub announce they can't go thru this again & they will never return

there will need to be some kind of psychological aid to those who are traumatized, post-traumatic stress order caused by natural disaster is severe & real, as i know from being a victim of a previous disaster

some will fear to return & there will need to be real remedies such as effective levees to counter these fears