From: John Cuccia 

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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