Let's face it: the pathetic failure of 1960s housing and poverty "solutions" was, at least in part, due to the lack of INCENTIVE and OWNERSHIP. People were given a free ride with little or no responsibility.
Hopefully Bush's Katrina experiment will prove to be a good laboratory for turning this failure around. When people have a stake in their future, they take care of it...when they are on a never-ending supply of government services, they don't.
that's all fine, the ownership theme and all. but you are assuming that its going to work, that we aren't going to see all these evacuees screaming on Nightline 6 months from now "Bush promised me a new free house and a car, where is it?". then what do we do?
I will answer that question - we give it to them as handouts. politically, there is no other way, we own this thing now. that is the problem.