More housing response detail

I'm looking at a rather remarkable PDF document here that one of our editors spottted on Senator Lieberman's Web site. It's captioned "White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response" and dated last Tuesday, September 6, and in the course of going through what each federal agency is (was) doing as of that date, it casts a fair amount of light on the workings of the federal housing response. Among the items -- all presumably now a week old or more:

- The Housing Authority of New Orleans "is fully operational at the Houston Housing Authority, with a satellite office at the Atlanta Housing Authority. HANO has also set up offices in Dallas and Atlanta and can be reached at 713-652-2924."

- Charles 'Hank' Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing, has been assigned "to help lead the Joint Housing Solutions Center in Baton Rouge, LA." The document says "He will arrive Saturday, September 3, 2005," suggesting it was actually drafted before that September 6 date. The Joint Housing Solutions Center is apparently a FEMA entity.

Many more who's-doing-what kinds of details in this document, such as the fact that the housing authorities of San Antonio and Bexar County were doing intake among the first New Orleans arrivals at Kelly Air Force Base.

On the whole this is a helpful thing to read even a week later. Do note however that the information may be out of date.