Hey zeus Kriste'

I just heard on the radio that an ass load of Katrina evacuees are facing eviction from the apartments they have been relocated to because FEMA mailed relief checks to their old New Orleans addresses. What a bunch of Morans.

After the extent of damage because evident, I said I thought the government should rebuild New Orleans. In theory I still think this is the kind of disaster they should address - the problem is simply too large for private free market forces to be effective. There are houses in Pensacola FLA that still have tarped roofs from last year's hurricane.

But it has become painfully clear that the government, as currently structured, is wholly inept and incapable of such a task - at least FEMA is. I heard of a proposal to move responsibility from FEMA to HUDD. The E in FEMA stands for "emergency," not "long term" and they clearly can't keep up.

From the Winston-Salem Journal:

Katrina evacuees face eviction without checks

CHARLOTTE - Hundreds of Hurricane Katrina evacuees face possible eviction because their federal relief checks haven't arrived - four weeks after the money was promised.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency was to send checks of $2,358 to cover three months' housing. But evacuees said that FEMA has mailed checks to former addresses in New Orleans or to the wrong address in Charlotte, which never reached their recipients.

Social workers fear that the delay may leave many hurricane evacuees homeless when there is a shortage of affordable housing. Social workers estimate that hundreds of the 4,000 evacuees in the area are at risk of eviction.

FEMA has dispatched teams of workers to North Carolina to investigate the problem.

Those who have visited Charlotte said that half of the storm victims they have assisted in North Carolina have not received rental-assistance checks.

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