I've seen it first hand. Folks are living in some FEMA trailors there in parking lots, no hot water, small electric heaters, sometimes 8 to a trailor. There is a wait for everything!! Tent cities are normal. Cars still upturned everywhere, the smell is horrible, barriers everywhere, noisy from machinery. Red tape is rampant, FEMA is a friggin joke, Red Cross is a even bigger joke.
Price gouging out the ying yang, small tiny houses for rent at 3,000 a month, fully furnished! Some homeowners are kicking out tenents to be able to raise the rents they think they can get. And it's not just NO proper either, all the surrounding areas are that way.
As for flood insurance, that's seperate than other insurance and cost more than most folks earn...I know we rent and don't have it. Gotta eat and after paying astronomical insurance for health, we can't afford it.
Y'all don't realise just how poor that city is. You see the glitter of Bourbon street and that's it. That's not the real city at all! Most of them were the working poor. By which I mean they lived paycheck to paycheck and stole from Peter to pay Paul. So you tell me how they are suppose to eat, pay their bills then find extra to pay for flood insurance that first of all they were never told they lived in a flood plane....ever...so it wasn't brought up if you bought a home, or some thought it was included with the other insurance and many who lived in apartments didn't give it a thought...and then they just don't have the money. And who really and truly thought the levees would fail? I for one never thought it would happen.
Yeah so some were on welfare, show me a city that don't have it's share. I just get a little tired of hearing that they deserved it or they are trying to jip someone out of something. Not everyone was, or is, that way.