This is a question about Hurricane Katrina.?

These facts below I showed to support my question. Why did our government choose to send trailers to Atlanta snd store ice when they coudl have used HUD to get people in the empty homes. You have an entire govenrment staff already in place selling hud homes. Why not have them get these people into a HUD Home.
1-You have staff in place
2- Any home lived in is an improvement compared to an empty home.
3- a percentage of people would become acclimated to that community and stay in the home in which case a Fannie Mae or other loan would be available to finance that home.
4. This would be a simple solution instead of trailers

there were an estimated 374,000 hurricane Katrina refugees in shelters, hotels, homes and other housing in 34 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Red Cross and state relief officials.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0912/p01s01-ussc.html

1,433,646 home available to date
http://www.foreclosure.
Lets know the cost starting 5 billion . So not only am I a bleeding heart but anemic as well.
Lets face facts Katrina is not a one time deal. Its coming back. Just a question of when.
Maybe we can use an infrastructure we already have in place to solve the problem or does that make too much sense.

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One Response to “This is a question about Hurricane Katrina.?”

Mike K says:

June 17, 2009 at 3:31 pm

This is an fascinating thought.

I reckon that this would have been a excellent option with the following amendments:

1) Offer people HUD homes with the condition that they have to pay rent
2) Offer job search help and base the rent on that rate
3) Consider this a rent to own situation.

With a minimum wage job, keep rent low, around $200 or something. It may take 300 years to pay off the house, but at least the people living there are working towards something.

I can see a few benefits to this:

1) They can take pride that they are working towards something like home ownership.

2)The government would get lots of HUD homes off its hands, and would be receiving some money for them.

3)Welfare systems would have less strain by forcing people to work.

4)Businesses wouldn't have as hard of a time filling entry level jobs, and they wouldn't have as much turnover.

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