Reply #6: there's also a related thread on LBN today

[pitohui]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

people have not even started rebuilding yet in pass christian and some of the other towns

they are waiting to see if they will be required to raise their new houses and if so, what elevations, what requirements will need to be met, what will FEMA and insurers will pay

meanwhile, if you are not rich, you are going to have trouble finding housing

one of my friends lost his home at bay st. louis, he has many millions of dollars, he plans to rebuild so isn't buying elsewhere, nonetheless, the closest he was able to rent was in jackson, now think of the people who can't afford to compete for the suddenly much reduced supply of rental housing and suddenly inflated rents

that's right, they're living in RVs or trailers or in tents or in friend's and family member's houses, and it's just a big mess

i was sad to hear abt the teen-age boy, i wish he had told someone but people are also being brave and letting others go ahead of them, there is a natural chivalry in many young teens and twentysomething men where they willingly sleep in the tent or on the slab to let a woman or a child get a place indoors, i wouldn't be surprised if it were something of this nature that happened here

we had a public shelter open in western st. tammany for the night of the freeze, only 3 people showed up, yet i have bicycled around and i have seen the tents, trailors, etc, that young men are living in quietly, without complaint, and without drawing attention to themselves -- and this area was no where near hit as hard as coastal mississippi