Filling a Desperate Need for Shelter Begins With Cruise Ships and Proposals

New York Times ^ | 9/6/05 | ERNEST BECK and EDMUND L. ANDREWS

[Coldwater Creek]

It is also a chance to learn a trade that pays well. My black plumber makes more than the doctor that lives across the street.

[StarSpangled]

Sorry. Those jobs have already been promised (contracted) to Halliburton. I think the people of New Orleans should have a stake in rebuilding their own city.

[Cobra64]

Personally, I think able-bodied male evacuees should be housed in tents, outside of the New Orleans city limits, where they could sleep and rest after they worked a normal shift helping to clean and recover their city, hopefully further upriver. Why should they lounge on a cruise ship while our troops are there working on recovering bodies and cleaning the city up? They don't go and work, cut off their "guvmint" check!!! It's time to stop the free ride, that's what ended up causing a lot of this mess. A welfare state leaving people dependent on an AWOL local "guvmint."

I agree. Gis and police were working supplies, and the evacuees were just standing around. We've had floods here in NC, and WE ALL work together. I don't get it when these slobs just sit around, waiting for others to... forget it. I'll get banned.

[JoeGar]

This reminds me of the early 1970s when New York City began placing welfare mothers in the Waldorf Astoria hotel -- only to hear complaints about the maid service!

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Strangers will be rebuilding and paying for the rebuild of New Orleans. That said, those who pay to rebuild should have a say in who runs the city.

It nauseates me that we, Americans everywhere, will pay for a rebuild and the elected trash who botched the disaster will retake their thrones of corruption.

[axes_of_weezles]

I was thinking right along the same lines. Reusing Conexes like you describe.

They rent the Office type conexes at work and from what I have seen of them, I would live in one of the rehabbed ones with insulation and A/C.

Such a great idea, you know they wont do it.

[TexanToTheCore]

A company called Port-a-Kamp uses containers in just this manner They make up really great deer hunting shacks out of them. Shack being a relative term. Deer Hunting shacks in Texas are very luxurious.

[JoeGar]

Six years ago, Hurricane Floyd flooded eastern NC. FEMA moved poor folks into temporary mobile homes until they could find permanent housing. Amazingly, some still cannot find permanent housing. Surprise, surprise. Will Carnival ever get its cruise ships back?