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Long-term refugees
Sep. 3rd, 2005 05:26 pmI'm impressed by the outpouring of generosity and offers of housing and help that I've seen (which will help people when they stop being imprisoned in the Superdome, held back by armed soldiers - can you imagine this happening to a predominately white crowd? I can't.)
What I'm wondering about (and no one seems to be talking about) is what happens to these 50-100,000 people who have no homes, no jobs, no family that's not equally or more poor than them, in 6 months? A year? Two years? 10 years?
Where are these people going to go? Welfare recipients or working poor, extended families living together in substandard, cheap housing, old houses. What broken-down areas are they going to be relocated to? Will new slums be built to house them?
And what are these refugee camps going to be like in the short term? Like housing projects, only more tightly packed and with fewer amenities? Frustration, boredom, desperation, drugs, guns. I don't see any good at all.
I have absolutely no trust in anyone in our government to figure out what to do other than let them fester, and the right-wingers talk about how they're not taking responsibility for themselves.
What I'm wondering about (and no one seems to be talking about) is what happens to these 50-100,000 people who have no homes, no jobs, no family that's not equally or more poor than them, in 6 months? A year? Two years? 10 years?
Where are these people going to go? Welfare recipients or working poor, extended families living together in substandard, cheap housing, old houses. What broken-down areas are they going to be relocated to? Will new slums be built to house them?
And what are these refugee camps going to be like in the short term? Like housing projects, only more tightly packed and with fewer amenities? Frustration, boredom, desperation, drugs, guns. I don't see any good at all.
I have absolutely no trust in anyone in our government to figure out what to do other than let them fester, and the right-wingers talk about how they're not taking responsibility for themselves.
