For New Orleans after Katrina, too many nights for deaf-mutes
NEW ORLEANS - The Church of All Souls began with a fresh paint in a garage, that Hurricane Katrina survivors. Members of the community added red, white and blue awning abandoned a KFC, setting a solid metal of abandoned houses nearby.
This is the progress of reconstruction.
“Listen,” says James Lemann, whose mother was the sanctuary’s Garage. Down the Block, oscillating metal groans in a slow breeze, if not the silence of the streets. “It’s a beautiful sunny afternoon,” said Lemann, 48 “Did you hear saws? Listen each hammers?
By the end of each month, he sounded this way - here in New Orleans devastated Lower Austria 9 Ward, and in other places the greatest Katrina. The U.S. government has over $ 80 billion for the region again and again. But in nearly 16 months since the storm are taken in these areas in the coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi cups of silence, and the promise of reconstruction seems far removed, who lived here once.
The owners do not receive much help return. $ 7.5 billion on a programme of support for the LA people rebuild or relocate the money is in the hands of only 87 of 89403 owners percentage. Along the Gulf Coast, nearly 100000 people still live in trailers and motorhomes, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In the lower Ward 9, often poor, part of the city, protection against flood waters severely damaged more than 1300 buildings, more than in almost any other part of New Orleans, City Records. But since early December, the city has issued four permits for new housing will be built, USA Today, an analysis of the authorization given by the rate of displays.
“The result is that the taxpayers of this country will spend literally tens of billions of dollars and are surprised and disappointed that just because they can not show, for him,” said Maryland Sen. Rieu, D-La.
Why, despite massive support, few people were able to rebuild what Katrina washed away? USA Today found:
• The main programmes of disaster has been prepared on the breadth of Katrina’s destruction. For example, the Small Business Administration was unable to keep with the demand for emergency loans, partly because they sub-administrator Steven Preston acknowledges. FEMA to reimburse cities grants for the reconstruction of schools and sewers have been backlogged by a cumbersome licensing procedures, “said Jim Stark, director of the Agency’s Louisiana Recovery Office.
• Owners of grant programs in Louisiana and Mississippi have been frustrating complex. To qualify, owners had to promise to buy flood insurance - and promises that everyone, has purchased the land to do likewise. It is necessary to sort agents by tens of thousands of real estate securities and bonds.
• Many homeowners wait to see if others return to their neighborhoods and how sewers, roads and protection devices levees are repaired, said Andy Kopplin, executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. In addition, owners want to rebuild may not always find partners, work to be done, because the owners are inundated with projects that few months have long waiting lists, Kopplin said.
“We call the new normal. Everybody is overwhelmed easy,” said Phil Bryant, Mississippi State auditors, monitoring, reconstruction of the state. “People have come to recognize that only if we can give some time, and we are moving as quickly as we possibly can.
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For New Orleans after Katrina, too many nights for deaf-mutes
NEW ORLEANS - The Church of All Souls began with a fresh paint in a garage, that Hurricane Katrina survivors. Members of the community added red, white and blue awning abandoned a KFC, setting a solid metal of abandoned houses nearby. This is the progress of reconstruction. "Listen," says James Lemann, whose