March 15, 2008 at 5:14 pm (Blogroll, society)
Tags: carib, gulf coast, hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, hurricanes, maya, new orleans, oceans, storms
The ghost of Hurricane Katrina is going to be haunting our nation for years to come. The Gulf Coast and especially the Crescent City, New Orleans have much to be concerned about. Rebuilding these devastated areas is taking great effort and consuming valuable economic resources. Thousands of people and their families will never forget, nor should they, how the government failed to protect them and then assist them in recovery. Not to blame the government entirely, because there is a strong element of human pride, poverty, and the human condition that also contributed to the toll taken on the people of the Gulf. Regardless of the arguments over it however, hurricanes will return year after year, and with every hurricane season the good people of the Gulf Coast and New Orleans will pray that the coming storm will pass them by. The images and the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, Camille, Albert, and many others will serve to remind us that every year these storms are sure to return when the oceans begin to heat up under the blaze of the summer sun. The Maya and Carib people considered these storms Gods because of their destructive power.
Hurricanes are perhaps the most fearsome and devestating natural force we will ever encounter. Learn more about the formation and early encounters with hurricanes in these two articles. The article Hurricane explores the origin of the word for these monster storms, and the article Hurricanes explores how hurricanes are formed.
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March 13, 2008 at 4:42 pm (Blogroll, Politics, housing, property management, real estate, society)
Tags: economic development, FEMA, housing, HUD, hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, hurricane season, landlords, trailers
The government’s worst landlord is FEMA. After placing thousands of Hurricane Katrina survivors, mostly poor and low income people, in cheap trailers that were supposed to be temporary housing, FEMA and HUD, with the cooperation of local and state politicians appear to have abandoned them in favor of an economic development scheme aimed at creating long term solutions to a short term disaster.
Look at it like this. If your car has a flat tire, you need to replace the tire with a new one, or at least a tire that will get your car on the road so you can get to work every day. What you don’t need is the government to build a tire production facility somewhere just to make more tires that someone will sell you sometime in the future. But that’s how the government thinks your problem should be solved. Don’t help the survivors of our national disaster survive by helping with the construction of low cost affordable housing today, instead just dump a few billion into port development in order to create jobs sometime down the road.
FEMA is not equipped to handle low-income housing, and HUD …… Well what can you say about a government agency with a long record of corruption and scandal? The survivors of Hurricane Katrina will need government help for years to come. How long can a human survive in a mold, insect, and vermin infected government trailer that is environmentally hazardous to begin with? Is this a new form of social engineering in our country? We should be paying attention to this, because another hurricane season is about to begin.
Here are ten simple Landlord Rules that the nation’s worst landlords, FEMA and HUD could learn a lesson from.
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