From: Ellen K. 

I hope you didn't think I was implying that resettlement was the
RESPONSIBILITY of charitable groups, I was just curious as to whether they
are involved in that as opposed to first-response type of stuff.  I thought
I read something about Habitat for Humanity getting involved, but can't
remember now.

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:02:57 -0600, John Cuccia 
wrote in message :

>I read this weekend that the Red Cross claims to be out of money.  The
>churches around here (and elsewhere, I assume)  took in and placed as
>many people as they could.  I doubt they can handle another 200k
>people.
>
>On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:42:13 -0800, Ellen K.
> wrote:
>
>>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
.story?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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