Katrina Victims Still Waiting for Aid

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-hurricanes-housing-aid,1,6924231.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

Katrina Victims Still Waiting for Aid

NEW ORLEANS -- Theone Watts is pulling waterlogged drywall out of her modest brick home, determined to gut and rebuild. So far, she is doing it with little government help.

"The money would help a great deal," said Watts, a 57-year-old resident of New Orleans' once-bustling Gentilly neighborhood. "But as I see it, a lot of it is going to have to be self-done. It's frustrating the money is slow to come."

More than 11 months after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's "Road Home" housing-aid program for victims of Katrina and Hurricane Rita has yet to come through with money for Watts or the roughly 100,000 others who have applied.

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Designed by the state and funded by the federal government, the $7.5 billion Road Home will be one of the largest redevelopment programs in U.S. history. Road Home will provide grants of up to $150,000 per homeowner to buy them out or help them repair or rebuild.

[partylessinOhio]

1. This is Bush's Homeland Disgrace. * let the Katrina victims down from the

moment the storm hit. Our country has experienced one horror after another during his occupation of the WH.

[Ragin_mad]

2. This is a state program

it has federal funding, but the state is fucking it all up.

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3. details?

from the article:

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But the bulk of the federal funding was not approved until almost 10 months after Katrina, caught up in disputes over the costs of the Iraq war and other spending. And the program had to run a gantlet of additional state and federal approvals.

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4. The request for funding for the program didn't even occur until May

and the appropriation was made in June.

[Tight_rope]

5. Bushco* stoled over 3 billion and people are still in need of help!