From: Ellen K. 

Do you happen to know whether the Red Cross or other charitable
organizations are doing anything about resettling these folks?

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:24:17 -0600, John Cuccia 
wrote in message :

>To all the congressmen suffering self-described "Katrina fatigue",
>please note the below and imagine how fatigued you'd feel if you were
>living in a tent on your ruined property, all while Brownie continues
>to collect his $130k+ annual salary.
>
>http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20051031/1a_lede31.art.htm
>WASHINGTON — Two months after Hurricane Katrina displaced more than 1
>million people, problems with federal housing aid threaten to spawn a
>new wave of homelessness.
>
>In Texas, thousands of evacuees who found shelter in apartments face
>eviction threats because rents are going unpaid.
>
>In Louisiana, some evacuees are beginning to show up in homeless
>shelters because they haven't received federal aid or don't know how
>to get it.
>
>Advocates for the poor say the situation will worsen this winter.
>
>“They are the poorest folks … and they are the ones who are going to
>be left with nothing,” says Sheila Crowley, president of the National
>Low Income Housing Coalition. “It's going to show up at homeless
>shelters this winter.”
>
>The housing crunch could get tighter in November, because the Federal
>Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) wants to move an estimated 200,000
>Katrina evacuees out of hotels as soon as possible.
>
>
>
>and
>
>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-biloxi27oct27,0,1252466.s
tory?coll=la-home-nation
>BILOXI, Miss. — In the afternoon, when it is warm, Valentina and Gary
>Stilwell can almost forget there are no walls around them. Valentina
>has hung one of her paintings on a tree, and there is a bowl of hard
>candies on the coffee table. The concrete slab beneath them is as
>spotless as linoleum.
>
>But Sunday night a cold wind shuddered through east Biloxi, shaking
>their tent so badly that Gary had to get up several times to drive the
>stakes back into the ground. Gary and Valentina slept in half-hour
>lulls between the gusts of wind, and in the morning the weight of what
>they had been through bore down hard.
>
>"There's nobody that can do anything for us," said Gary, a 62-year-old
>Vietnam veteran. Valentina, 44, put it more bluntly.
>
>"I said to the FEMA guy, if you can't bring me my trailer, just bring
>me a .38 and a bullet," she said.

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