(Blog editors not: First of all, the web version of the following story was replaced on the Globe's website with a New York Times piece; then the piece below you has been totally rewritten. WTF, readers? What is with the CENSORSHIP?)
"Foreclosed homes could become hurricane shelters" by Lisa Orkin Emmanuel, Associated Press Writer | June 3, 2009
MIAMI -- Officials told AP on Tuesday that it is an effort to find some benefit in the foreclosure crisis and....
Now WHY was that CUT and EDITED? I think you know, doncha?
keep people close to their homes and communities instead of scattering them around the country, which happened when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans....
(snip)
and other parts of coastal Louisiana and Mississippi....
Why cut that?
nearly four years ago. Thousands.... (snip)
of victims who lost their homes in the storm moved to Houston, Atlanta, and other cities, and many....
WTF? Seems like a CENSORING PATTERN is emerging, no?
never returned....
(snip)
New Orleans has been slow to recover, partly because of the lost population....
Oh, REALLY? WTF, readers?
FEMA would likely contact banks, other mortgage holders and their representatives to compile a list of available homes. The evacuees would then be assigned homes close to their own and FEMA would use a contractor, acting as its agent, to pay rent directly to whoever owns the home, said Jon Arno, FEMA's individual assistance branch director for Florida. His duties include finding temporary housing for disaster victims....
Oh, so this is just about TRANSFERING MORE TAXPAYER LOOT to PROPERTY OWNERS, huh?
I'm kind of wondering why they KICKED PEOPLE OUT to start with now.
WTF is this "BENEFIT" to the foreclosure crisis? What an INSULT!!!!!
I can SEE why the article was PULLED and REWRITTEN!
If the proposal works in Florida, it could serve as a model nationally.
--more--"Instead, the web version of the paper gives me this "updated" story:
"Katrina victims can stay in their trailers" by New York Times | June 4, 2009
NEW YORK - Hurricane Katrina victims around the Gulf Coast who were told to vacate their temporary trailers by the end of May will instead be allowed to buy them for $5 or less, White House officials announced yesterday.
Oh, that's great: FEMA Knew Katrina Trailers Were Poisonous
The Department of Housing and Urban Development will also give the 3,450 families still in trailers or temporary housing - including many elderly, poor, and disabled people - priority for $50 million in permanent housing vouchers. The money for the vouchers was appropriated by Congress last year.
Some of those living in trailers are destitute and have no other housing. Others, including many people in New Orleans, are living in trailers outside their damaged homes....
Related: More FEMA Failures
Residents were overjoyed to hear that they would not be evicted....
Yes, PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE LEAVING HOME!
Ask ANY REFUGEE in the WORLD!!!!
--more--"Good thing the government rebuilt the Gulf Coast, huh?
Didn't really take that lo.... whassat?
"Housing out of reach for Katrina victims; Meanwhile, 'Miss. cottages' remain vacant" by Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post | June 14, 2009
GULFPORT, Miss. - James Johnson can look across a grassy field here and see acres of empty pastel "Mississippi cottages," each house an architect's vision of how government can provide safe, low-cost, and permanent housing to families made homeless by Hurricane Katrina nearly four years ago.
STILL HOMELESS after FOUR YEARS?!! WTF!???
At 74, Johnson would like nothing better than to move one of the nearly 700 vacant cottages onto his land, where he now lives in a temporary trailer provided by the government.
Yeah, a POISONOUS ONE that THEY KNEW was POISONOUS!!!!
That's how much this government LUUUUUVVVVVS YOU!
I mean, they would NEVER PULL a FALSE-FLAG ATTACK and DROP THREE STEEL SKYSCRAPERS at FREE-FALL SPEED!
The cottages - with picturesque white fences and wide front porches - are designed to be set on a permanent foundation and can withstand winds of 150 miles per hour. Johnson's daughter helped him apply for a cottage, but the request to the state has gone nowhere.
That's how Massachushitts does bidness!
Instead, Johnson faces renewed uncertainty this summer about where he will live and whether he can ever rebuild a life on the 10 acres he helped his family buy in the 1940s.
Wow! A whole family and way of life destroyed -- and no one cares.
Must not be Jewish.
The unused cottages are the latest example of a trouble-plagued Gulf Coast housing recovery that has subjected the Federal Emergency Management Agency to harsh and prolonged criticism and led to charges that states are diverting federal rescue funds or failing to deliver on promises to restore long-term affordable housing.
And yet here is was told by the newspaper two months ago that the Big Easy is Booming!!!
Are you TIRED of the MSM LIES yet, America?
This was supposed to be one of their finest moments, and they let it turn to s*** again!
Now, 45 months after the devastating hurricane, FEMA's temporary housing programs are expiring after a series of congressionally mandated extensions. Typically, the government cuts off disaster aid 18 months after an event, but today, nearly 20,000 families are still living in temporary trailers and apartments.
And being sickened as they do!
And WHY should it even be an ISSUE after FOUR YEARS?!!
BANKS got THEIR BAILOUT in a matter of DAYS!!!!
Related: Another $200 Billion For Wars and Other Things
The federal government has poured more than $25 billion into aid for individuals, emergency housing, and state rebuilding block grants.
THAT'S ALL?!!!!
But states have lagged in developing long-term solutions for dislocated families, in some cases using funds for economic development projects or drafting poorly designed programs....
Translation: the STATE FUCKS YOU at EVERY LEVEL!
FEMA's housing problems began immediately after the storm, as it wasted hundreds of millions of dollars trying to house evacuees in cruise ships, hotel rooms, and military facilities that were cost-prohibitive or unpopular.
That is what government does best: WASTE TAXPAYERS MONEY!!!!
FEMA settled on putting displaced families in trailers while their homes were repaired or rebuilt, but then faced major embarrassment when some occupants developed health problems because of a toxic chemical used in trailer components.
And PLEASE TELL US they KNEW, MSM!!!
FEMA then moved many homeless families into apartments, and the federal government pumped funds to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas to speed reconstruction and to provide housing vouchers for low-income residents.
Then WhereTF is it?
And NOTICE the TONE?
How GREAT GOVERNMENT IS for getting that $$$$ flowing!
Makes me want to puke.
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