Does anyone have any sense of what has happened to all the new homeless due to natural disasters?

[Dover]

These disasters are occurring closer and closer together with less time to recover/ relocate/ absorb this huge group.
Where are they all? What kind of help have/will those who lost everything receive?
Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Midwest Floods, Ike, fures and mudslides, tornadoes....etc.?

And what of all the people who have had to walk away from their homes due to foreclosure?

Who is keeping track of these statistics?

Can/should these vulnerable areas be rebuilt? Will Insurance companies cover them?

Anyone here who experienced upheaval from these storms care to comment?



Here are a few resources I came up with (U.S. and global)-

-- Risk Analysis Reports Over Half of World’s Population Exposed to One or More Major Natural Hazards
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2005/story03-29-05.html

-- http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/systems/natural-disaster-surveillance.htm

-- NOLA stats
http://house.louisiana.gov/legispublist/subjects-a-f.htm#DISASTER%20RELIEF
http://democrats.senate.gov/dpc/dpc-doc.cfm?doc_name=fs-109-1-119

http://www.lorenscottassociates.com/Reports/AdvancingInTheAftermath.pdf

-- Natural Disaster- and Conflict-Induced Displacement: Similarities, Differences and Inter-Connections
http://www.brookings.edu/speeches/2008/0327_displacement_ferris.aspx?emc=lm&m=214900&l=31&v=658612

[EmeraldCityGrl]

1. I've heard they were scattered to the four winds...A friend

that works for the Salvation Army in of all places, Apache Junction, AZ.
was involved in "relocating" survivors. There's absolutely nothing there but
poverty.

No wonder so many in Galveston refused to evacuate, they've heard the stories
first hand from the many "relocated" there after Katrina.

[Dover]

2. Are you saying people were 'relocated' to specific areas in groups?

How COULD that work without also providing some means of income?

I don't quite have the picture of what you are describing. Can you elaborate?

[EmeraldCityGrl]

3. People were put on planes and flown to distant locations. Once they arrived

charities like The Salvation Army were involved in helping them "settle in."

I can only speak with certainty regarding those sent to Apache Junction, Az.

I'm assuming they applied for assistance from FEMA.

MSM has reported people in the last hurricane were taken by bus to the
airport with no known destination. Many didn't realize they were being
taken to the airport when they boarded the buses.

There's a Blues organization in Portland, Or. that helped musicians from
New Orleans relocate...so I've read.

Wish I had more information.

[AndyTiedye]

4. The Republicans Are Tracking All This…

…to prevent these people from voting.

http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote

[tavalon]

5. This is one reason, among many,

that we need to be poll watchers this election day.

[radfringe]

6. mccain has several houses

he can put up a few people

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Yeah, well ... there's no homeless here, dontchaknow?

All the people that want homes got homes, so don't worry, none.

[Dover]

8. In hard times, tent cities rise across the country

http://enews.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20080918/48d1d240_3ca6_1552620080918-1589777073

[KoKo]

9. kick!