[TSgt]

America has historic low interest rates and low home values/prices yet there is not enough affordable housing?

Oh' wait! Reverend Davis means FREE housing!

The sense of entitlement is appalling especially after their Katrina FEMA handout.

Let them live in a tent city, I'm tired of paying for the parasites.

[junta]

Haiti on the Big Muddy.

[camle]

what happens when the people rely upon government to solve their problems...

[Peter from Rutland]

Sounds like fantastic news for New Orleans. Fewer leeches is good for everyone all around.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Stay in school, learn some skills, stay out of gangs, don’t do drugs, marry the woman before you get her pregnant and then you will be able to find “affordable housing.”

[Onelifetogive]

but what folks are saying is they're not building enough.

Then buy yourself a piece of land and build all the houses you want to build!!!!!

[Freee-dame]

for people to return they need the subsidized housing to get back on their feet, especially since there are few jobs

Housing you can't afford and no job.... Productive members of society would not consider moving to such a location.

[ClearCase_guy]

During the war, we fire-bombed Tokyo. If you look at Tokyo now, you see a thriving, successful city.

I don't know if it would work, but I propose fire-bombing New Orleans.

[FrdmLvr]

This sums up Katrina. I am so sick of hearing about Katrina I could, well never mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XivNwQ76mCs

[BWDog]

Well, duhhh. You have old run-down stuff that gets taken out by a natural disaster.

Re-building anything means you're going to have to do it in accordance with new building codes. Designing for wind and floods, including more energy efficient mechanical systems, increasing insulation of the building envelope, including code-legal stairs (they take up more space), etc. Ain't none of it free...

I have never been able to understand why liberals have such a problem with the concept of "cause and effect." Pile on lots of mandatory "you-can-never-be-too-safe" requirements and then wonder why things are too expensive. Go figure...

[jwparkerjr]

The housing destroyed by the storm was built before all the new building codes that have been put in place by an ever-intrusive government. Every one of those codes adds to the cost of the housing in a development.

It's the same old story. Voters are presented with a quite reasonable proposal to have government take over some troubled aspect of life. The proposal is couched in the most inoffensive and non-intrusive terms. But the ballot wording of the initiative only barely resembles what the voters were told in an effort to garner support for it.

Those who speak out against the proposal are painted by the supporters as cruel, insensitive people who have no compassion for the less fortunate.

The initiative passes and the saga begins. All sorts of things were included that no one realized were there, or the bureaucrats responsible for the program just do what they want, knowing full well it's not in what the citizens consented to, but also knowing they probably won't figure it out. And even if they do, what are they going to do about it. By the time anyone realizes they're being robbed blind so many of the less fortunate are wholly dependent on the government largess that it's impossible to cut the benefits.

I could go on and on with the roots that spread from the initial proposal to what it becomes in 10 years or so.

At some point it becomes “too big to end.”

[maica]

Reverend Davis says for people to return they need the subsidized housing to get back on their feet, especially since there are few jobs, but what he's seeing is lower-income African-Americans being priced out of the communities where they grew up.

Absolutely Alice in Wonderland! People who want to live in free accomodations without jobs seem to feel that they can choose where they live?! Please, someone, Gov Jindal, Mayor Landrieu, tell these people that this is not the new reality.