...and some Katrina reading for the weekend
Housing quality problems for displaced Gulf Coast people in East Texas... Criticisms of emergency trailer housing... A big selection of Brookings articles on rebuilding, including material discussed in the trailer article just cited... Secretary Jackson tours New Orleans and Baton Rouge... Katrina updates from the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH) (though please compare the widespread suggestions we have noted that landlords should register vacant units both with SWERN and with other matching services for displaced tenants.)... By email, NPH says, "About 5,000 for[e]closed homes in 11 states will be made available to hurricane survivors. HUD usually sells such homes to consumers or investors. The agency plans to spend about $10,000 on repairs for each home being made available." These are higher numbers than reported previously, hence a little good news going into the weekend.
[MORE: HUD is now saying it has 34,000 public housing units for evacuees. Until Congress approves emergency vouchers, that means fewer units for the conventionally poor... but numbers like these mean some serious coordinating is getting done. More on this from Baton Rouge today.]
[MORE: From a few days back, but worth reading if you haven't already -- FEMA is "...mapping out new towns..." for tens of thousands of people at a time.... More here... A more technical description of the manufactured housing effort here... And here is NLIHC's response to President Bush's speech.... and here's the much-blogged Heritage Foundation programme.]
[MORE: Katrina relief efforts, and some indignation too, from the American Federation of Govt Employees... Recommendations from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities... And the activist group ACORN says that while some "business owners and wealthy residents" are now being allowed back into New Orleans, poor people in shelters are still being told that they won't be able to come back for months. This last item offered as a datum that could have implications for the rebuilding -- or not -- of affordable housing in the city.]
[AND YET MORE: Another much-blogged FEMA article, this one from the New York Times. Click through to the second section of the article for the housing discussion: "Perhaps the greatest frustration expressed by state and local officials - as well as by some federal officials - is the pace of finding or setting up temporary housing..." For what it's worth, it seems as though general-interest news coverage of the housing response has shifted focus a little in the last couple of days, spending more time on the efforts to set up temporary structures on a large scale, and a little less on the efforts to get displaced tenants into individual units of conventional housing.... Though here's the NYT yesterday on displaced Gulf Coast tenants renting in Memphis -- via the informative Knowledgeplex Katrina page.]
[MORE: HUD is now saying it has 34,000 public housing units for evacuees. Until Congress approves emergency vouchers, that means fewer units for the conventionally poor... but numbers like these mean some serious coordinating is getting done. More on this from Baton Rouge today.]
[MORE: From a few days back, but worth reading if you haven't already -- FEMA is "...mapping out new towns..." for tens of thousands of people at a time.... More here... A more technical description of the manufactured housing effort here... And here is NLIHC's response to President Bush's speech.... and here's the much-blogged Heritage Foundation programme.]
[MORE: Katrina relief efforts, and some indignation too, from the American Federation of Govt Employees... Recommendations from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities... And the activist group ACORN says that while some "business owners and wealthy residents" are now being allowed back into New Orleans, poor people in shelters are still being told that they won't be able to come back for months. This last item offered as a datum that could have implications for the rebuilding -- or not -- of affordable housing in the city.]
[AND YET MORE: Another much-blogged FEMA article, this one from the New York Times. Click through to the second section of the article for the housing discussion: "Perhaps the greatest frustration expressed by state and local officials - as well as by some federal officials - is the pace of finding or setting up temporary housing..." For what it's worth, it seems as though general-interest news coverage of the housing response has shifted focus a little in the last couple of days, spending more time on the efforts to set up temporary structures on a large scale, and a little less on the efforts to get displaced tenants into individual units of conventional housing.... Though here's the NYT yesterday on displaced Gulf Coast tenants renting in Memphis -- via the informative Knowledgeplex Katrina page.]
posted by Martha Bridegam at 4:46 PM
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