Sec'y Jackson on the New New Orleans

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson in the Houston Chronicle:

"Whether we like it or not, New Orleans is not going to be 500,000 people for a long time," he said. "New Orleans is not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again."

He said he isn't sure that the Ninth Ward, a predominantly black and poor neighborhood devastated by flooding, should be rebuilt at all....

Also from his visit to Houston, comments on the evacuee housing situation there.

(Apologies for recent gaps in posting due to traveling blogmother. This space will be catching up on developments all day today.)