I understand EXCEPTIONS however their way of life, in general is the "exception". They weren't always old. They made choices along the way in life ... I see those same choices being routinely made and entitlement as the weekly paycheck. That's NOT RIGHT. If that's so right then, maybe we should ALL throw our hands up in the air and step down. Good grief - this country was founded on hard work, and self determination.
I understand what you are saying, but my comment was simply that there is no way they can return to that life, and no way that those same conditions they were living in can be rebuilt for them to return to NO.
Relief agencies in the past might have been able to rent older, run-down yet still adequate housing for the poorest, but those structures no longer exist and will not be rebuilt.
New Orleans would be foolish to use it's resources at this time to entice a non-productive portion of it's society to return.
The people of Houston are to be commended for their compassion, but if their decision-makers did not forsee this situation, they are very foolish indeed.