Housing.com News, Analysis & Opinion: Hurricane Housing: The Flood Gates

Katrina tore away any preconceptions people have about the nature of race and class in this country. I still shudder to think of some of the horrific things I saw heard, said, and done. But that horror pales alongside the everyday dramas and trials people who survived the catastrophe have to deal with. It's important that we read the stories of people like the Forrest family, or the residents of Plaquemines Parish.

Read these words, know these are Americans just like you and I, and do what you can to help. For these people, Katrina is not over, and will not be over for a long time to come.

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There's a new poll out that claims Americans are not at all sure we can handle another disaster. Of course, one of the major reasons the gov't response has been and continues to be so ineffectual is because FEMA got shrank from a full Cabinet agency and put in the hands of a man who thought horse grooming was key preparation for disaster management. Katrina tore away any preconceptions people have about the nature of race and class in this country. I still shudder to think of some of the horrific things I saw heard, said, and done. But that horror pales alongside the everyday dramas and trials people who survived the catastrophe have to deal with. It's important that we read the stories of people like the Forrest family, or the residents of Plaquemines Parish. Read these words, know these are Americans just like you and I, and do what you can to help. For these people, Katrina is not over, and will not be over for a long time to come.