It may very well be that many of these folks will eventually be better off than before the storm--a sort of blessing in disguise. Sometimes it takes a hurricane to get people out of the hell-hole they've been living in.
We shall see. Remember in the 1980s when Philadelphia mayor Wilson Goode had a standoff with the radical group MOVE and he dropped a bomb on their house, resulting in the neighborhood burning down? Very similar. Poor, predominantly black families left homeless, politician blamed, responded by offering unprecedented government largesse to rebuild better than ever. But the new homes were crap, built by contractors selected for political reasons rather than best value, and I dont recall hearing a lot of positives ever. Hope this doesnt go the same way.