Posted on 04/05/2006 9:06:21 AM PDT by Daytyn71
Under a deal reached Tuesday, a group of Hurricane Katrina victims staying at the Radisson Hotel near JFK will receive $2,500 if they move out of the hotel this week.
Nine families who fled Hurricane Katrina remain at the hotel, but the hotel is in the middle of a major renovation and FEMA stopped paying for the families stay in February.
Now, the hotel has agreed to pay the families to clear out as soon as possible to make way for the renovations. The hotel has agreed to pay the families $2,500 to move out this week, $2,000 if they move out next week, and $1,000 if they leave in the next 30 days.
"Hopefully I can move on and get some public housing and start working and get my life back on track,” said Katrina evacuee Charles Ebans.
“The Radisson has collected millions of dollars from Katrina survivors and I understand that a business has to make a profit, however this is just vulgar, this is greed,” said attorney Ashwani Prabhakar. “They could allow the people to stay a little while longer."
The Radisson says it will evict any evacuees still at the hotel in 45 days.
We had a tornado rip thru southern Indiana in november. The affected were mainly our amish community. Albeit its nowhere near the damage of Katrina, they have rebuilt their homes and workplaces with NO government money (they asked the FEMA people to leave)and very little private insurance.
The construction industry basically sold materials at cost and a lot of the communities sent lots of volunteer help.
The amish are known for being some of the first ones to respond to any natural disaster.
No kidding - was the renovation planned before the Katrina "victims" showed up, or did it only become necessary after they'd destroyed the place? And how much revenue did they lose from their normal business clientele deciding to stay elsewhere?
It galled him to pay deadbeats to move, but he figured it saved him the cost of going to court to evict them and the cost of repairs after evicted tenants would inevitably trash the place.
It sounds like this hotel has adopted the same strategy adjusted for inflation.
I'm sure they can, but they're afraid of the publicity. Hence the buy-out option.
We had a tornado rip thru southern Indiana in november. The affected were mainly our amish community. Albeit its nowhere near the damage of Katrina, they have rebuilt their homes and workplaces with NO government money (they asked the FEMA people to leave)and very little private insurance.
The construction industry basically sold materials at cost and a lot of the communities sent lots of volunteer help.
The amish are known for being some of the first ones to respond to any natural disaster.
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The Amish know what hard work and community support is all about. No doubt.
The FEMA guy showed up and asked what was needed. He was told to just get out of the way.
The FEMA guy showed up and asked what was needed. He was told to just get out of the way.
I find it hard to imagine you have to go through a 60 day eviction process IN A HOTEL. If that were the case lots of NY Scammers would check into hotels all the time and then spend two months free waiting to get evicted.
After the first $2000 debit cards were given out, it became fairly obvious that the FEMA types had no brains and no common sense. Why should they care? It's not their money.
Carolyn
He'd definitely be right in California. While we have expedited eviction proceedings, those who know how to game the system can stretch them out for as much as a year. Meanwhile, you're not collecting any rent, and they're trashing your building. I once attended a law school seminar on landlord-tenant law with a section called, "how to get them to pay you to move."
"Hopefully I can move on and get some public housing.."
Note: Public housing is actually the goal.
That shows how engrained it is w/ these people.
I wondered that too, but I guess its bad PR.
The drug dealers and pimps will be waiting for these bums the minute they hit the streets with their $2,500, just like when the Katrina scum got FIMA's $2000 Visa cards. Wonder if the renovation was planned before the Katrina crowd moved in, or if it's become necessary because they trashed the place.
What this experience has taught the well-meaning folk who tried to help is that next time, they will be like the Gretna, LA police who blocked the bridge and wouldn't let the NO scum come into their town on the other side. They knew what the welfare crowd from NO was like. And now the rest of us do, too.
WHY are these people still being called evacuees?
Most of these jokers never evacuated when they were told to.
The term 'lazy whiners' is more appropriate.
I was commuting up to NYC for quite awhile back before Katrina. This hotel was the only one that consistently had rooms available - during the XMas holidays, in the middle of a snowstorm, whatever.
I never stayed there because it was really inconvenient for me to get back and forth to the city....but I always wondered what was wrong with it. Was it the location, or something else?
In my experience living down there, the children are raised like that....ain't gotta work, jus gimme them dallahs, 'caus I caint git no jaab!
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