http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050904/NEWS01/509040335/1002
Here's what gets me about Jesse Jackson bringing buses to England Airpark and demanding that the refugees (whether Jesse likes that word or not, sorry, it's what the people call themselves because I've heard them do it) be there. This article states that the plan was already in place, but the barracks aren't exactly habitable, to quote:
"Jon Grafton, authority executive director, had said Friday that the authority has approached the Federal Emergency Management Agency about upgrading the barracks to use for housing refugees from natural disasters such as a hurricane, but never got a response. He said the buildings have toxic mold, asbestos, nonworking heating and air conditioning systems and are generally uninhabitable."
Likewise, an Alexandria housing project called Wooddale Park is also under consideration for refugee housing. Why is it available? Because they deemed the complex uninhabitable for Alexandria residents due to asbestos.
Again, I don't understand why Jesse Jackson targeted Rapides Parish for his demands for "family-friendly, livable" housing. We're already doing all we can!
Someone should tell him to STFU and just go father more illegitimate children; that'd do less harm than he's doing right now?
Desperate to keep them in LA.
Who knows what his ulterior motives are. What industries moved into the England Air Park? Does he have some hair brained idea to set up shop there so he can get his hands in as many cookie jars as possible?
I went to Louisiana College for a year and loved living there. I have also lived in NO area so I would imagine it will be an interesting adjustment.
We are chock a block full here too. I do know that quite a few have already found work and housing here. Every spare space is taken. My sister said that they sold 150 houses in Lafayette in the last couple of days. Not everybody in NO is dirt poor or on welfare. We have just been shown the inner city population.