The re-build will truly make New Orleans the Crescent (and sickle) City. All those houses will need to be re-built. They won't be re-built at the owner's expense, gubment will have to pay for them. It won't be "fair" if some are better built than others or built before others. Imagine the looting of construction supplies of the area that may be built up first.
So we're going to see conformity in the construction, a standard floor plan or two that are going to be better than anything the residents could have afforded on their own. Just imagine what could be built on a direct dollar for dollar or replacement cost basis. They will probably be, at least in part, "the peoples housing units". The residents won't be given 100% ownership due to the new home being worth so much more. Would it be fair for a resident to sell the new house at a premium, pocket the profit and move away? If they do implement some form of partial ownership, how many generations would it take for that to fade away?
Do you see it too?
arggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh..........might just as well give them the same amount of money as the 9/11 families got, and be done with it.........
I see that and the "set asides" which will define the budgetary term "pork" in a way we've never before seen. We will see the Professional Race Baiters, Jack$on, Cumming$, $harpton, with their hands out for more "programs" and whining about the homes built.
BTW, I continue to ask when is Jesse Jackson going to pony up part of his 8 billion dollars he extorted from Toyota to assist minorities in job training, blah, blah, blah? Wonder if the MSM will ever get round to asking that. No, I'm not holding my breath. :)