The "unwanted neighborhoods" are pretty much irreparable and will be demolished anyhow, and I can't imagine why anyone would then turn around and build brand new slums back in their place..
I can.
"The "unwanted neighborhoods" are pretty much irreparable and will be demolished anyhow"
Not really - many homes are not that wet and even those that were submerged might get away with new wiring, sheetrock, and fixtures.
That a lot less expensive than starting from scratch.
You're not thinking like a democrat. Je$$e Jackson wants those slums back like yesterday already. These displaced people have been "acculturated", and he doesn't want to upset that arrangement.
um.....we ARE talking about Democrats here. Logic is not logical.
Give liberal entitlement, dems, RINO's more credit than that. In addition when they rebuild they'll dig the city another 5 feet deeper just so the can make the levees 5 feet taller, net difference of 10. Pork city.
They will be rebuilt. Part of that is because the administration is on the ropes on this one. But not all will come back. The jobs won't be there.
Sure you can. Slum dwellers vots democrat Slum lords give big money to Democrats. Slum muggers, rioters and looters provide political muscle to Democrat poverty pimps.
New Orleans will be rebuilt just the way it was. With your money.
The area was what would today be called "unbuildable", and quite a bit of it was already "brownfields", unsuitable for human habitation. The soil is permanently saturated, and there is no underlying rock strata for some distance down, making piles only marginally practical. There are a number of old dumps, on which soil was just graded over, some of them not up to anything like Superfund mitigtion standards.
The street levels that are 15-20 feet below the average water level in the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain, are subject to seepage even when there is a low water level and no rain. The discharge pumps run continuously, like a huge sump, pulling the ground water out, and leaching a good deal of these contaminants already in the water away from the old dump sites. This discharge has been going into the lake and the river for decades, then eventually discharging into the sea.
Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Maybe, but not anywhere on these old swamps and bayous. Most places like the 9th Ward should be allowed to revert to a more natural state. Practically all the residents who once lived there are either gone, or dead, in the past week.
I can't imagine why anyone would then turn around and build brand new slums back in their place
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You obviously do not know any Progressive Liberals.
This may work out pretty well for NO. They dump their poor and unemployed on Texas so they unburden themselves from that social aspect and now are free to build the city back up to attract new neighbhorhoods, etc. - all at our expense.