Reply #40: Thank you. And, I hope you will poke around and see if you can find out.

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These are people who get forgotten.... as you can see even from this thread, it isn't a popular topic. We need to make them our business.

And after media attention dies down (if there even *is* any media attention... it looks like the only ones who wrote about this are students!), they fade from view and without followup, the worst can happen.

After Katrina, when the people were sent all over the country, as the media attention died down, they were quietly sent from the places where they had been "stashed", and with no place to go and no way to survive, the number of suicides went sky high. As progressives, we need to insert ourselves in this issue, to make sure that this doesn't keep happening. Our poor people deserve better in the richest country in the world!

I also hope you read the facts that Green Party Voter posted about destruction of low-income housing:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1050037&mesg_id=1059838

It is something we should all KNOW, and should be following up and making noise about!

Thank you! :yourock: