The community response, con'td

- Tom Slemmer, CEO of National Church Residences (NCR), has added a comment to this post from yesterday explaining the efforts of NCR and the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) to provide disaster relief assistance, including with referrals, rent and financial help, food, water, "health services," and "medication issues" For more information, see the detailed description in his comment below and see NCR's resource page here. Over on the AAHSA page, they're asking organizations that "have received Katrina evacuees" to let them know at hurricane_relief@aahsa.org:

The federal government has asked for our help in trying to keep track of evacuees’ location and needs. If you are housing Katrina elder-evacuees at your senior housing, assisted living, or nursing facility, please please email us the number of evacuees, what assistance you need, where they came from and contact information at your organization for follow-up.

- Atlanta-based Capitol Development Group and ProLandscapes, Inc. just wrote to us saying they're housing 100 displaced families in newly renovated apartments. [UPDATE: Here's their announcement.]

- There's a good new NLIHC Katrina page pulling together the past two weeks' information on the federal response, with emphasis inside the Beltway.