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H.R. 1227, The Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act of 2007
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Mary Ann Hill
In Mississippi as well as in Louisiana, HUD plans to demolish public housing that is habitable, and at least in some cases here even attractive, without providing alternative housing to residents. Apparently, desirable locations are best used for other kinds of housing, for other kinds of people. This is not right. We should rally to protect our communities.
James Wallace
Public housing is supposed to be transitional, not a way of life. With the exception of the elderly and the infirm, public housing residents need to find jobs and pay for housing like the rest of us.
Yes, it's that simple if they're made to actually do it. There is no shortage of jobs on the Gulf Coast.
Julie Layne
Correction- there is no shortage of $6.00 an hour jobs on the Gulf Coast. For people who have a way to get to them. Many people who were living in public housing, in legitimate status, have been locked out of their own homes since the flood, EVEN THOUGH the flood did not reach their homes. People who own their homes outright in sections of town where it is possible to still have electricity and services have no services and cannot return home and the neighborhoods are blocked off by armed mercenaries from Blackwater. The FEMA trailer camp is in effect, an internment camp with armed guards telling people who they may and may not speak to. I do not see what is simple about that kind of situation. MIllions of dollars of red cross donation money is missing and unaccounted for vs. being used appropriately. See http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/28/1342209 for more information.